Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 125

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Danny Lyon, photographer. Come Let Us Build a New World Together. Poster, 14 x 18 inches; moderate even toning, minor wear, tack holes and small cello tape stains in corners, ¼-inch chip with tape repair on right edge, laid down on linen. Atlanta, GA: Lincoln Lithograph Company, circa 1963

Additional Details

This is one of a series of five Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee posters featuring the work of civil rights photographer Danny Lyon. It depicts protesters kneeling in prayer at a segregated swimming pool in Cairo, IL on 13 or 14 July 1962. At left is 22-year-old SNCC organizer John Lewis.