Title from caption on object: "Oswald as a Schoolboy", 1963

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 22.4 × 15.5 cm (8 13/16 × 6 1/8 in.)

sheet: 22.8 × 15.5 cm (9 × 6 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Accession Number

2015.208.14

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

across bottom printed in image: [cut off] E FOR SUNDAY AMS, DEC.15 WITH AP NEWSFEATURE BY JULES LOH) / (NY59-DEC.12) OSWALD AS A SCHOOLBOY—The schooldays of Lee / Harvey Oswald [underlined and circled in pink ink] saw the boy moved many times to different schools / These exclusive AP photos of the accused assassin of Presi- / dent Kennedy show him, left, in a class picture while he was in / the second grade in Fort Worth, Tex., and the right at the Bronx Zoo / in New York, where he attended school and was picked up for / chronic truancy in 1953. (APWirephoto) (See AP Wire Story) / (5n52319fls) 1963; by unknown hand, bottom right in black ink: 15 x 7 ½ OSWALD; on verso, upper center stamped in red ink: DEC 16 1963; lower center stamped in black ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: APR 12 1981; lower center printed in black ink on applied newspaper under reproduction of image: Lee Harvey Oswald [underlined and circled in black ink] never liked school. / Picture was made as a second grader.

Provenance

Jo Tartt, Jr., Warrenton, VA; NGA purchase, 2015.

Associated Names

Tartt, Jo