Title from caption on object: “Controversial Photograph Taken before the Doorway of Texas Book Depository at Time of the Assassination...”, November 22, 1963

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Medium

gelatin silver print with applied color

Dimensions

image: 18.6 × 24 cm (7 5/16 × 9 7/16 in.)

sheet: 20.6 × 25.8 cm (8 1/8 × 10 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.489

Artists / Makers

James William Altgens (artist) American, 1919 - 1995

Wide World Photos (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

crop marks upper center, upper right, and center left in orange crayon; by unknown hand, across bottom in red ink: WIDE WORLD SEE IMPORTANT CREDIT ATTACHED; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in blue crayon: John F. Kennedy [circled]; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: Controversial photograph taken before the doorway of Texas Book Depository at time / of the assassination. [underlined in red ink] Was the man in the circle Lee Harvey Oswald? / WIDE WORLD PHOTOS; lower center stamped in black ink perpendicular: DAILY NEWS / AUGUST 13 1966

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary