Ella Baker, who called the 1960 meeting of student activists in Raleigh, North Carolina, that created SNCC

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Photograph by John Bentham.
Ella Baker, who called the 1960 meeting of student activists in Raleigh, North Carolina, that created SNCC
Photograph by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (American, born 1942)
Date1963, printed 2010
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 11/16 × 13 15/16 in. (22.1 × 35.4 cm) Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 15/16 in. (27.7 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2016.17.33
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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 / k [in pencil] / BLEAK BEAUTY / [star] / Picture Date 63 [in pencil] Print Date 10 [in pencil]"
Signature Verso, lower right (pencil): "D Lyon"
Inscribed Verso, upper right (pencil): "DLC 01"
Photograph by John Bentham.
James Forman, like many of the SNCC field staff, was a powerful stump speaker. Here he works the crowd at the Danville mass meeting. An hour later he will be searched by police holding shotguns and automatic weapons
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.35
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
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.30
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
A Toddle House in Atlanta has the distinction of being occupied during a sit-in by some of the most effective organizers in America when the SNCC staff and supporters take a break from a conference to demonstrate
A Toddle House in Atlanta has the distinction of being occupied during a sit-in by some of the most effective organizers in America when the SNCC staff and supporters take a break from a conference to demonstrate
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963 (printed later)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.19
Photograph by John Bentham.
The Freedom Choir in the Tabernacle Baptist Church. High school students and children helped start the Selma movement
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.37
Walesa's Combat: a meeting of the K.K.P. (National Solidarity Commission) with labor activist Lech Walesa
Walesa's Combat: a meeting of the K.K.P. (National Solidarity Commission) with labor activist Lech Walesa
Michel Philippot
Date: March 25,1981
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print on resin-coated paper
Object number: 2022.15.121
West Street and the West Side Highway, just north of the Trade Center site, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
West Street and the West Side Highway, just north of the Trade Center site, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1967; printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.61
View from my loft, looking north on William Street, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
View from my loft, looking north on William Street, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1967; printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.59
Builders and doctors in Brasilia: Brasilia, the most modern capital city in the world has 65,000 inhabitants in 1959. Today, its population totals 250,000. In three years this figure will increase to 500,000. Since the first foundations were laid, builders and doctors worked closely together, first of all to see to it that the 60,000 workers who took part in building the new city stayed in good health, then to prevent the town from being invaded by the diseases of bush and forest. Immigrants' health is checked systematically on the road into Brasilia, while specialists study the flora and fauna of the environment in order to discover possible sources of dangerous diseases. The cathedral under construction. Ca. 1960s
Builders and doctors in Brasilia: Brasilia, the most modern capital city in the world has 65,000 inhabitants in 1959. Today, its population totals 250,000. In three years this figure will increase to 500,000. Since the first foundations were laid, builders and doctors worked closely together, first of all to see to it that the 60,000 workers who took part in building the new city stayed in good health, then to prevent the town from being invaded by the diseases of bush and forest. Immigrants' health is checked systematically on the road into Brasilia, while specialists study the flora and fauna of the environment in order to discover possible sources of dangerous diseases. The cathedral under construction. Ca. 1960s
Paul Almasy
Date: c. 1960
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.170
North Carolina - lake with mansion in background
North Carolina - lake with mansion in background
Burt Glinn
Date: 1956
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2021.12.131
RAAF Helicopter Ambulances in Vietnam Fighting: Among the many operational tasks performed by the versatile RAAF Iroquois helicopters of No. 9 Squadron in Vietnam, a new one-- aerial ambulance for wounded Viet Cong prisoners-- has been added. They were called on to fly two prisoners-- one a stretcher case who needed medical treatment in flight and the other blind-folded walking wounded case-- from the battle area to hospital at Vung Tau. Since their arrival in Vietnam with the Australian Task Force in June, the RAAF Iroquois have been used for carrying troops and wounded, dropping ammunition to hard pressed Australian troops, dropping leaflets and carrying out aerial reconnaissance patrols...
RAAF Helicopter Ambulances in Vietnam Fighting: Among the many operational tasks performed by the versatile RAAF Iroquois helicopters of No. 9 Squadron in Vietnam, a new one-- aerial ambulance for wounded Viet Cong prisoners-- has been added. They were called on to fly two prisoners-- one a stretcher case who needed medical treatment in flight and the other blind-folded walking wounded case-- from the battle area to hospital at Vung Tau. Since their arrival in Vietnam with the Australian Task Force in June, the RAAF Iroquois have been used for carrying troops and wounded, dropping ammunition to hard pressed Australian troops, dropping leaflets and carrying out aerial reconnaissance patrols...
Date: September 6, 1965
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.288
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
A Reade Street entrance to 187 West Street, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1967; printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.49