Title from caption on object: “A Youth Knelt in Prayer...”, September 15, 1963

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Medium

gelatin silver print with applied color

Dimensions

image: 21.2 × 14 cm (8 3/8 × 5 1/2 in.)

sheet: 23 × 14.5 cm (9 1/16 × 5 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.453

Artists / Makers

William A. Mobley (artist) American, 1908 - 1976

United Press International (publisher)

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Inscription

retouching and crop marks across recto in red ink; on verso, upper right printed in black ink on applied barcode label: historicimages.com / mjw06939; by unknown hand, center in graphite perpendicular: 3 [illegible] / Bomb Prayer; center right stamped in purple ink: Return to Library; lower center printed in black ink on applied pink sticker: RETURN / TO / LIBRARY; lower center stamped in purple ink: Return; by unknown hand, lower center in blue ink: (Civil Rights-Dem.-US); lower center partially visible UPI copyright stamp in black ink; lower center stamped in purple ink on applied paper: MO SEP 16 1963 LATE 2; lower center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: —Photo by Bill Mobley of the Birmingham Post-Herald, via UPI Telephoto / A youth knelt in prayer on the glass lit- / tered sidewalk across the street from the / 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, / Ala., after the church was bombed Sun- / day. Four Negro children attending Sun- / day school services were killed.; by unknown hand, bottom center in black ink: Integ +; bottom center in blue ink crossed out in graphite: (Negroes - Segregation)

Provenance

(Historic Images, Memphis); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary