Title from caption on object: “A Grinning James Meredith Accepts His Bachelor of Arts Degree from University of Mississippi...”
August 18, 1963
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Artwork overview
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Medium
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: 21.1 × 14.5 cm (8 5/16 × 5 11/16 in.)
sheet: 23 × 15.3 cm (9 1/16 × 6 in.) -
Accession
2023.39.184
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.
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Inscriptions
on verso, by Ross Kelbaugh, top right in graphite: AF204; upper left stamped in green ink: PROPERTY OF / NEWSPAPER DIVISION / FIELD ENTERPRISES, INC.; upper right stamped in red ink: SUN TIMES / AUG 19 1963; center printed in applied photo paper perpendicular: OXP081802-8/18/63-OXFORD, MISS.: A grinning James Meredith [circled in blue ink] accepts his Bachelor of Arts / degree from University of Mississippi Chancellor J.D. Williams here 8/18. The Negro's / enrollment at Ole Miss last fall resulted in mass riots which were quelled when federal / were ordered onto the campus. UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL TELEPHOTO -fwl; center illegible printing notes in graphite