Title from caption on object: “Want Chow”, August 25, 1958

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

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sheet: 13 × 20.4 cm (5 1/8 × 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.447

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in blue ink: Integration; upper center in blue ink underlined and crossed out: Segregation; upper right in graphite: P.P. / [illegible] / TUES-; center in graphite circled: #5; center in graphite circled, crossed out, and partially visible: 5; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: WANT CHOW These Negro children are among 85 / staging sitdown [sic] strike in luncheon- / ette of Oklahoma City department store, seeking food and / fountain service. Store management is holding to policy / of many Oklahoma City eating places against serving / Negroes. Children have appeared three days. (AP photo); lower center stamped in blue ink: AUG 26 1958; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: 90.6

Provenance

(sale, RMY Auctions, Wilder, ID); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary