Photograph of Mahalia Jackson with Dr. Martin Luther King: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Mahalia Jackson with Dr. Martin Luther King: Date: ca. 1960. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Mahalia Jackson, American, 1911 - 1972.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black-and-white photograph of Mahalia Jackson standing with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and an unidentified man. Jackson is in the center, wearing a light-colored lace dress and a large corsage of flowers and ribbons pinned to her proper left shoulder. King is to the right, wearing a dark-colored suit and tie. The unidentified man is on the left, wearing a lighter-colored suit and tie. All three individuals look down at an accordion folder held by the unidentified man; Dr. King is pointing at something on the folder with his proper left hand. Behind them is a wall with a repeating graphic print depicting a short staff of musical notes and outlines of musical instruments including trumpets, saxophones, banjos, trombones, and clarinets. There are no inscriptions or marks, front or back.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1960
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Mahalia Jackson, American, 1911 - 1972
- Subject of: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
- Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image and sheet): 10 × 8 1/16 in. (25.4 × 20.5 cm)
- Place captured: United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Gospel (Music)
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2014.141.3
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Paul & Claire Blumenfeld
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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