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Mrs Dale Alford, wife of a segregationist Democratic congressman from Arkansas, talks to two unidentified pickets, protesting school desegregation
Wirephoto published in the Tribune newspaper in 1959. Purchased by David Hurn from MMG Photo Archives.
Full title: Mrs Dale Alford, wife of a segregationist Democratic congressman from Arkansas, talks to two unidentified pickets, protesting school desegregation, at the State Capitol. Two daughters stand beside Mrs Alford and her son stands behind her alight suit, his head hidden by a sign calling a Government Orval E. Faubus to "save our Christian America".
The photograph is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity signed by the librarian of the Baltimore Sun Archives Paul M McCardell.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 57420
Creation/Production
Unknown
Tribune Newspaper
Date: 1959 –
Acquisition
Gift, 25/4/2017
Donated by David Hurn, 2017
Measurements
h(cm) image size:20.9
h(cm)
w(cm) image size:18.4
w(cm)
h(cm) paper size:21.6
w(cm) paper size:20.7
Techniques
Wirephoto
Material
Newsprint
Location
In store
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