Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 302

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MUSIC.) Group of press photographs of gospel legend Mahalia Jackson. 8 photographs, each about 8 x 10 inches, most original gelatin silver prints; condition generally strong, one with editing marks, various caption labels, pencil notes, and inked stamps on verso. Vp, circa 1950-70 and undated

Additional Details

Jackson can be seen in an Apollo Records promotions image from early in her career (circa 1946-53); with President Eisenhower at his 1959 birthday celebration; with Louis Armstrong offstage at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1970; on the set of Sesame Street; and on the set of "Rappin' on the Roof," 22 December [1970]. One shot of Jackson on the set of a New York radio station (illustrated) was taken circa the late 1950s by Inge Hardison (best known as sculptor of the Negro Giants in History series), with Hardison's inked stamp on verso.