Proof prints

Containers:

Box 1

Extent:

.2 Linear Feet (4 folders)

Scope and content:

These glossy 5x7 proof prints were taken in rural homes and fields, marches and rallies, and Freedom Vote events in Mississippi. Some may have been used as exhibit prints. The great majority have the job, roll, and frame numbers stamped on the backs and this informs their arrangement. With a few exceptions, the proof prints are undated and unattributed.

Known content or photographer:

The first few prints bear the initials J.C. and are by Joffré Clarke of the SNCC Atlanta Photo Department; there are several action shots of Fannie Lou Hamer at a Washington, D.C. rally, another is a well-known half-bust portrait of her. A copy of the latter is also located in the Exhibit-Related series, along with several prints taken by Clarke in Freedom Schools.

Print 248-13-16 of a Black man registering to vote under the eye of a white local official with a cigar, is listed as having been taken by Tamio Wakayama in southwest Georgia, 1963, in This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers in the Civil Rights Movement , ed. Leslie G. Kelen, 2011. There are several other job 248 prints, likely to be by Wakayama.

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s profile appears in an action shot, print 283-1-9. He appears again at an unidentified march, print 291-2-26.

"B.F." appears on several job #289 prints - likely denoting either photographer Bob Fitch or Bob Fletcher.

Physical facet:

124 photographs

Dimensions:

5 x 7 inches

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