After giving a concert in a cotton field in Greenwood, Bob Dylan plays behind the SNCC office. Bernice Reagon, one of the original Freedom Singers and today leader of Sweet Honey in the Rock, listens. Mendy Sampstein sits behind Dylan and talks to Willie Blue

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Photograph by John Bentham.
After giving a concert in a cotton field in Greenwood, Bob Dylan plays behind the SNCC office. Bernice Reagon, one of the original Freedom Singers and today leader of Sweet Honey in the Rock, listens. Mendy Sampstein sits behind Dylan and talks to Willie Blue
Photograph by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (American, born 1942)
Date1963
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 12 7/8 × 8 11/16 in. (32.7 × 22.1 cm) Sheet: 14 × 10 7/8 in. (35.5 × 27.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2016.17.30
Not on view
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Provenance 2016: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Thomas J. Wilson.
Markings Verso (stamp, red ink with pencil): "Printer U [in pencil] / BLEAK BEAUTY / [star] / Picture Date 63 [in pencil] / Print Date 10 [in pencil]"
Signature Verso, lower right (pencil): "Danny Lyon"
Inscribed Verso, upper center (pencil): "DLC 29"
Frank Smith, Bob Moses, and Willie Peacock in Greenwood SNCC Office
Frank Smith, Bob Moses, and Willie Peacock in Greenwood SNCC Office
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2024.12.2
Photograph by John Bentham.
Outside, Lester MacKinney, Bernice Reagon, and John O'Neal wait to get in [a Nashville Tic Toc restaurant]
Danny Lyon
Date: 1962, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.36
Singers of the Khevsur warrior clan
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Armand Deriaz
Date: c. 1969
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.210
Dr. King Leads Off Second Lap: Dr. Martin Luther King, extreme right, civil rights leader, strides out of camp near Selma, Alabama, as his protest march started its second lap. Next to King is SNCC Chairman John Lewis. A soldier ordered to duty along with several thousand troops to guard the marchers, stands with rifle along the roadside. The marchers are aiming for the State Capitol at Montgomery.
Dr. King Leads Off Second Lap: Dr. Martin Luther King, extreme right, civil rights leader, strides out of camp near Selma, Alabama, as his protest march started its second lap. Next to King is SNCC Chairman John Lewis. A soldier ordered to duty along with several thousand troops to guard the marchers, stands with rifle along the roadside. The marchers are aiming for the State Capitol at Montgomery.
Date: March 22, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.277
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A policewoman plays games with community children. Shortly afterward, the officer became pregnant and was assigned a desk job for the period of her pregnancy, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.28
Woman singing while man plays piano
Woman singing while man plays piano
David Seymour
Date: 1955
Medium: Ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.234
Women's Lot is Poverty: an Indian woman rests in her "home," in squatter area of Bombay. A girl plays nearby. Other families live in similar shocking poverty. Indian women have followed their husbands from the drought stricken rural homes to the cities where they had hope of finding food and shelter
Women's Lot is Poverty: an Indian woman rests in her "home," in squatter area of Bombay. A girl plays nearby. Other families live in similar shocking poverty. Indian women have followed their husbands from the drought stricken rural homes to the cities where they had hope of finding food and shelter
Horst Faas
Date: March 8, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.199
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Madman in the straw: "a sinister corridor. From behind heavy doors escape the repulsive groans and sickening odors of the mad vomiters doing a cure of disgust (on cheap wine). Behind the last door, a premature madman, naked in the straw. I photographed him through the thick murky glass of his spyhole, licked again and again, without seeing anything (reflex cameras didn't exist at the time). At 2 am, I finally convince the charming head doctor, worn down by my arguments, to let me take the picture in my own way", Psychiatric hospital
Jean-Philippe Charbonnier
Date: 1954
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.198
Les Caprices: L'Homme vu de dos, la main droite tendu (The Caprices: Nobleman With Right Hand Outstretched, Seen From Behind [Detail])
Les Caprices: L'Homme vu de dos, la main droite tendu (The Caprices: Nobleman With Right Hand Outstretched, Seen From Behind [Detail])
Jacques Callot
Date: unknown
Medium: Etching on paper
Object number: 1983.39
Les Caprices: Le Gentilhomme au Grand Manteau, Vu de Dos (The Caprices: Nobleman in Broad Cloak, Seen From Behind [Detail])
Les Caprices: Le Gentilhomme au Grand Manteau, Vu de Dos (The Caprices: Nobleman in Broad Cloak, Seen From Behind [Detail])
Jacques Callot
Date: 1600-1700
Medium: Etching on paper
Object number: 1983.45
© Ken Heyman. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Cl…
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Ken Heyman
Date: 1995
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.26
The Power behind the Throne, from "Harper's Weekly"
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Thomas Nast
Date: published October 29, 1870
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.122