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Lot 44

Sale 2070 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, including African Americana
Lots Open
Feb 14, 2025
Lots Close
Feb 27, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$1,500 - 2,500
Price Realized
$1,200
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[CIVIL RIGHTS-SNCC] LYON, Danny. Is He Protecting You? Atlanta: Lincoln Litho. Co., [ca 1963-1964].

Atlanta, GA: Lincoln Lithograph Company, [ca 1963-1964]. 14 x 22 in. poster with halftone image background and bold white title (minor spotting, light discoloration and wear to left side of bottom edge). 
Part of a series of 5 posters produced by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee featuring photography by Danny Lyon (b. 1942), this poster depicts a Mississippi highway patrolman standing with his arms crossed. The original photograph taken in 1962 was titled, in part, "Waiting for James Meredith, the First African American to Register at the University of Mississippi." Photographer's credit printed to lower right, lithographer's credit to lower left.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

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