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Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, U. S. Congressman from New York, Addresses a Rally at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, Memphis
Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, U. S. Congressman from New York, Addresses a Rally at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, Memphis
Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, U. S. Congressman from New York, Addresses a Rally at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, Memphis
© Withers Family Trust

Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, U. S. Congressman from New York, Addresses a Rally at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, Memphis

Artist (American, 1922 - 2007)
Date1959
MediumGelatin silver print, printed from original negative in 1999
DimensionsComposition: 17 7/8 x 14 7/16 in. (45.4 x 36.7 cm)
Sheet: 19 7/8 x 16 in. (50.5 x 40.6 cm)
Mat: 28 x 24 in. (71.1 x 61 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 number2005.3.114
ProvenancePanopticon Gallery, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts, 2005
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