Title from caption on object: “Civil Rights Marchers”

August 28, 1963

Associated Press

Publisher

Warren K. Leffler

Artist, American, 1926 - 2014

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 16.8 × 21.5 cm (6 5/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 18 × 22.7 cm (7 1/16 × 8 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.457

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

crop marks in black ink across top, along left edge, and along right edge; crop mark in white paint across bottom; on verso, upper center printed in black ink on applied barcode label: AFR-45-BS; upper right stamped in black ink inverted: OTHER; upper right stamped in black ink perpendicular: REVIEW OF THE YEAR 1963 / NO CUT FILED / 556-268 E; upper right stamped in red ink perpendicular: DEC27 1963 E; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite circled: F; center left printed in black ink on applied paper: L15955 / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION:USE CREDIT / CIVIL RIGHTS MARCHERS / ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF 1963 WAS THE / CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH ON THE CAPITAL. THE / HUGE CROWDS WHICH POURED INTO WASHING- / TON FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY JAMMED / THE AREA IN FRONT OF THE LINCOLN MEMOR- / IAL AND AROUND THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT / REFLECTION POOL FOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS / CEREMONIES. THIS VIEW WAS TAKEN FROM / THE TOP OF THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL. / IFY 924P 12/11/63 / WA LD TYP MLA; by unknown hand, center illegible print marks in graphite

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