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Harold Middlebrook, Benjamin Hooks, and Josea Williams in Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel Looking at King's Briefcase, Memphis
Harold Middlebrook, Benjamin Hooks, and Josea Williams in Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel Looking at King's Briefcase, Memphis
Harold Middlebrook, Benjamin Hooks, and Josea Williams in Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel Looking at King's Briefcase, Memphis
© Withers Family Trust

Harold Middlebrook, Benjamin Hooks, and Josea Williams in Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel Looking at King's Briefcase, Memphis

Artist (American, 1922 - 2007)
DateApril 4, 1968
MediumGelatin silver print, printed from original negative in 1999
DimensionsComposition: 17 7/8 x 18 1/16 in. (45.4 x 45.9 cm)
Sheet: 23 7/8 x 20 in. (60.6 x 50.8 cm)
Mat: 30 x 28 in. (76.2 x 71.1 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineMemphis Brooks Museum of Art purchase with funds provided by Ernest and Dorothy Withers, Panopticon Gallery, Inc., Waltham, MA, Landon and Carol Butler, The Deupree Family Foundation, and The Turley Foundation
Object number2005.3.6
ProvenancePanopticon Gallery, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts, 2005
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