Title from caption on object: “Casket Reaches Capitol”
November 24, 1963
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Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.2 × 15.7 cm (9 1/2 × 6 3/16 in.)
sheet: 25.4 × 18.2 cm (10 × 7 3/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.503
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
crop marks along perimeter and center in black ink, graphite, orange crayon, and white paint; by unknown hand, center right in grease pencil: E [underlined] 72; lower right Associated Press logo in black ink on applied paper; on verso, upper left stamped in black ink: KENNEDY, JOHN F : ASSASSINATION [by unknown hand in black ink: -5] / NO CUT FILED [crossed out in black ink] / 503- 30-68 [crossed out in black ink]; upper left stamped in red ink: NOV 25 1963 E; upper left stamped in red ink: JUN 10 1977 E; upper center stamped in blue ink: '63 NOV 25 AM 8 : 13; center left printed in black ink on applied barcode label perpendicular: ABN-693-BS; by unknown hand, center left in blue ink circled: 8 1/2; center in black ink: Caisson / 3 col / page 6 / [illegible]; lower left stamped in black ink perpendicular: OTHER; across bottom printed in applied photo paper: (CAP4) WASHINGTON, Nov. 24--CASKET REACHES CAPITOL--The casket of / John F. Kennedy reaches the Capitol today on a horse-drawn caisson. / A symbolic riderless [sic] horse is alongside. (AP Wirephoto) (b11415stf)1963