Title from caption on object: “Three Girls Leave the Previously All-White McDonogh Elementary School…”, November 15, 1960

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 22 × 17.1 cm (8 11/16 × 6 3/4 in.)

sheet: 23.2 × 17.8 cm (9 1/8 × 7 in.)

Credit Line

Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection, Purchased with support from the Ford Foundation

Accession Number

2023.39.170

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

United Press International (publisher)

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Inscription

vertical along right edge printed in image: NEP111506-11/15/60-NEW ORLEANS: Three Negro girls leave the previously /all-white McDonogh Elementary School after spending their second day / in the integrated school. The girls are delivered to the school in the / morning and are called for in the afternoon by the U.S. Marshals that / are shown escorting the girls from the school. One of the girls can be / seen behind the marshal on the right. The third is hidden behind the / marshal. UPI TELEPHOTO JM/JM; on verso, by Ross Kelbaugh, top left in graphite: AF115B; by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: A897-Schools.; upper right stamped in purple ink perpendicular: REFERENCE / NOV 25 '60 / N. E. A.

Provenance

Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.

Associated Names

Kelbaugh, Ross J.