Title from caption on object: “Little Rock Four”, August 1959

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 15.2 × 22 cm (6 × 8 11/16 in.)

sheet: 15.7 × 23 cm (6 3/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.446

Artists / Makers

Francis Miller (artist) American, 1905 - 1973

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

on verso, center left stamped in blue ink perpendicular: ENGRAVING / 1959 AUG 12 AM 8:07; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: [cut off reproduction of image] / AP Wirephoto / LITTLE ROCK FOUR—Four Negro stu- / dents who will attend formerly all-white / high schools in Little Rock, Ark., chat at / the home of Mrs. L. C. Bates (left), state / president of the National Association for / the Advancement of Colored People. From / left are Elsie Robinson, 16, Estella Thomp- / son, 16, Effie Jones, 17, and Jefferson / Thomas, 16.; center stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper: AUG 12 1959 2; center right stamped in blue ink perpendicular: ARTISTS / 1959 AUG 12 AM 3100; by unknown hand, center right in graphite perpendicular: Wed Star [illegible] / 3 + 4 Little Rock; center right in red ink perpendicular and circled: BLACKS segregation-Arkansas (Little Rock); lower center Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary