The Freedom Choir in the Tabernacle Baptist Church. High school students and children helped start the Selma movement

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Photograph by John Bentham.
The Freedom Choir in the Tabernacle Baptist Church. High school students and children helped start the Selma movement
Photograph by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (American, born 1942)
Date1963, printed 2010
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 number2016.17.37
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 / 63 U [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 25"
Verso, lower left (pencil): "63"
Photograph by John Bentham.
Danny Lyon at Movement headquarters, Albany, Georgia
Danny Lyon
Date: 1962, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.31
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
Photograph by John Bentham.
Ella Baker, who called the 1960 meeting of student activists in Raleigh, North Carolina, that created SNCC
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.33
A Child's First Lesson: teacher in a Peking school holds up card for children to repeat in English language class. Poems on Chairman Mao and the Red Guard movement are subjects in first year class of 23rd secondary school of Peking
A Child's First Lesson: teacher in a Peking school holds up card for children to repeat in English language class. Poems on Chairman Mao and the Red Guard movement are subjects in first year class of 23rd secondary school of Peking
Horst Faas
Date: February 25, 1972
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.193
Student and nun in a church school for girls and orphans; Polizzi Generosa, Sicily
Student and nun in a church school for girls and orphans; Polizzi Generosa, Sicily
Leonard Freed
Date: 1974
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.125
Students at the countryside (men playing instruments outdoors)
Students at the countryside (men playing instruments outdoors)
Luc Chessex
Date: c. 1960s
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.64
© Michael Smith. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College,…
The Students of Deep Springs College, Deep Springs, California
Michael A. Smith
Date: 1995
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.8.4
© Danny Lyon. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Cl…
Children on ice cream vendor's box, from the series "Uptown"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1965 (printed 2010)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2013.5.24
© Danny Lyon. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Cl…
Children at an apartment entrance, from the series "Uptown"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1965 (printed 2010)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2013.5.28
Photograph by John Bentham.
Jimmy Hicks, Julian Bond, John Lewis, and Jeremiah X Stand Across the Street from the Bombed Church
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2015.11.11
Praise the Lord, Baptist Church, Newport, RI
Praise the Lord, Baptist Church, Newport, RI
Henry Horenstein
Date: 1979
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.68
Photograph by John Bentham.
Sketchbook [Art Students League]
William C. Palmer
Date: 1925-26
Medium: Graphite, crayon, watercolor and ink on paper
Object number: WCP.XXX.23