Title from caption on object: “Children of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Took Part in the Giant Demonstration for Clemency...”
June 14, 1953
American 20th Century
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Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 17 × 18.4 cm (6 11/16 × 7 1/4 in.)
sheet: 18.3 × 22.8 cm (7 3/16 × 9 in.) -
Accession Number
2018.177.416
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Historic Images, Memphis); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
on verso, upper left printed in black ink on applied barcode label perpendicular: www.historicimages.com / NEF65046; upper left stamped in blue ink perpendicular: JUN23'53; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite inverted: A81649; lower center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: WAP6 CLEVELAND BUREAU / WASHINGTON: THE CHILDREN OF JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBERG TOOK / PART IN THE GIANT DEMONSTRATION FOR CLEMENCY FOR THEIR CONVICT- / ED ATOM SPY PARENTS IN FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE HERE JUNE 14. / THEY ARE SHOWN ABOVE AS THEY JOINED THE MASS PICKETING WITH / THEIR GRANDMOTHER, MRS. SOPHIE ROSENBERG [underlined in red ink] [by unknown hand in graphite: ✓] (THIRD, RIGHT). MICHAEL [underlined in red ink] [by unknown hand in graphite: ✓] / ROSENBERG, 10, [underlined in red ink] IS (2ND FROM LEFT) AND ROBERT, 6, [underlined in red ink] [by unknown hand in graphite: ✓] IS AT RIGHT. / UNITED PRESS TELEPHOTO 6/15/53 flr