Resurrection City: Untitled
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Object Details
- Photograph by
- Jill Freedman, American, born 1939
- Subject of
- Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Senator Robert F. Kennedy, American, 1925 - 1968
- Description
- A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a man wearing a shirt and tie and smoking a cigarette. The man wears his jacket over his head. A partially obstructed pinback button attached to his shirt or jacket reads [WE MOURN OUR LOSS / 1925 / 1968 / ROBERT F. KENNEDY] with an image of Kennedy appearing at center. The man holds a small flag of Puerto Rico in his right hand. The print is signed on the back in graphite [Jill Freedman].
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- 1968; printed September 2017
- Object number
- 2017.81.6
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Jill Freedman
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin and photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 12 15/16 × 9 in. (32.8 × 22.9 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 14 × 10 7/8 in. (35.5 × 27.7 cm)
- Place captured
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Portfolio/Series
- Resurrection City
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Movement
- African American - Latinx Solidarity
- Poor People's Campaign
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Activism
- Black geographies
- Local and regional
- Politics
- Poverty
- Race relations
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2017.81.6
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd59d5b8038-3200-4dad-a3ad-7dd694ec505f
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