Title from caption on object: “Sun Streams Down on Coffin as Mrs. Kennedy and Caroline Kneel beside It”, November 24, 1963

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 16.4 × 21.9 cm (6 7/16 × 8 5/8 in.)

sheet: 17.7 × 23.2 cm (6 15/16 × 9 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.504

Artists / Makers

Hal Mathewson (artist) American, born Canada, 1913 - 1973

United Press International (publisher)

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Inscription

across top printed in image: [cut off] / Rotunda as Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy and daughter, Caroline, kneel and pray at the coffin / of the late President Kennedy. UPI TELEPHOTO 1d; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: ROTUNDA [obscured] / 4 x 5 / OPEDIT 11- [obscured]; upper left printed in black ink on applied paper: Edition [by unknown hand in graphite: advance] / Slug [by unknown hand in graphite: Kennedy #3] / Page [by unknown hand in graphite: A] / Date [by unknown hand in graphite: thurs] / Size [by unknown hand in graphite: 49x34] / Special Instructions [by unknown hand in graphite: BA-8 / for [illegible]] / Cut to / NR-60a; by unknown hand, upper left obscured printing notes in graphite; upper center in graphite: #2; upper right in graphite: BD7+8; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper inverted: Sun Streams Down On Coffin As Mrs. Kennedy And Caroline Kneel Beside It.; center stamped in red ink on applied newspaper inverted: NOV 25 1963; by unknown hand, lower right in red crayon perpendicular: J.F.K. / Death / Washington

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary