Feb 28, 2005 - Sale 2034

Sale 2034 - Lot 243

Price Realized: $ 862
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(KU KLUX KLAN.) Theodore Roosevelt Klan No 11 Realm of New Jersey at Washington, D. C. Sept. 13, 1926. Panoramic photographic group portrait of Klan members, a silver print, 8x281/2 inches; a few cracks where creased, fixing stains in lower left corner (slightly affecting the image); photographer's name (Post of F St.) and title in the negative. Washington, 1926

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The men and women of the so-called "new" Klan standing by the capital building during their march on Washington. The photograph offers a bizarre juxtaposition of one of the prime symbols of democracy with one of the prime symbols of intolerance.