"Jack Johnson, Champion of the World"
1910
E.W. Kelley
Artist, American, active 1890s - c. 1915
Artwork overview
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Medium
stereoscopic gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection, Purchased with support from the Ford Foundation
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Dimensions
image (each): 7.9 × 7.5 cm (3 1/8 × 2 15/16 in.)
sheet: 7.9 × 15.3 cm (3 1/8 × 6 in.)
mount: 8.9 × 17.9 cm (3 1/2 × 7 1/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2023.39.120
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Kathy and Joe Telinbacco, New Jersey); Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
along left edge of mount printed in black ink: E.W. Kelley, Publisher / Studio and Home Office, Chicago, U.S.A.; along right edge: Sold only by E.W. Kelley / Chicago: Dallas, Tex: Augusta, Ga; bottom right: Jack Johnson, Champion of the World, In his Chicago Home. / Copyright 1910 by E. W. Kelley. 3950; on verso, by Ross Kelbaugh, top right in graphite: AF66B / EHH