Title from caption on object: “Rosa Parks with her Mother Leona McCauley”
1965
Artist
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: 24.2 × 19.3 cm (9 1/2 × 7 5/8 in.)
sheet: 25.4 × 20.6 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2023.39.246
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, upper center printed in black ink: Metro Airport returning home from Selma march / L to R / Rosa Parks [underlined and circled in blue crayon] with her mother Leona McCauley; upper center stamped in purple ink: MAR 31 1965; lower left perpendicular: BY DETROIT NEWS STAFF / PHOTOGRAPHER / JACOBS / REPORTER [by unknown hand in blue ink: J. KERWIN] / FINISHED BY