Title from caption on object: "Herbie Denton, Student at Horace Mann Negro High School, and William Massie...”

September 1958

American 20th Century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 14.7 × 21 cm (5 13/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 14.7 × 21.4 cm (5 13/16 × 8 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.641

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

retouching across recto in grey paint; on verso, by unknown hand, top right in blue ink: A3114; upper center printed in applied photo paper: CKP092203-9/23/58-LITTLE ROCK: Herbie Denton, student at Horace Mann Negro High School, / and William Massie, who is registered at Central High School, are shown watching first / day educational TV. They agreed it was good but objected to not being able to ask / the teachers questions. UPI TELEPHOTO JB/jb; by unknown hand, center and lower center in orange crayon: [illegible] / 3 col / First T.V. [circled] Class; bottom right stamped in purple ink: REFERENCE / NOV 5 '58 / N. E. A

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