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DimensionsOverall: 7 x 9 3/4 in. (17.8 x 24.8 cm)
Accession Number 2025.257
Classificationsphotograph
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
Mrs. Coretta Scott King, widow of the late Martin Luther King Jr., rehearses in Constitution Hall for her narration of Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" which she will give February 12th as a part of Abraham Lincoln's 160th birthday anniversary celebration, which President Nixon plans to attend. At right is the celebrated composer, Washington, February 11, 1969
Image Not Available for Mrs. Coretta Scott King, widow of the late Martin Luther King Jr., rehearses in Constitution Hall for her narration of Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" which she will give February 12th as a part of Abraham Lincoln's 160th birthday anniversary celebration, which President Nixon plans to attend. At right is the celebrated composer, Washington, February 11, 1969
Image Not Available for Mrs. Coretta Scott King narrates Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" during a Memorial Day concert, by the Washington National Symphony, dedicated to her late husband, Martin Luther King Jr. on May 31. The concert was originally scheduled to be held at the Lincoln Memorial May 30, where the Poor People's Campaign is encamped. Seated at left is Howard Mitchell, music director, Washington DC, June 1, 1968
Mrs. Coretta Scott King narrates Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" during a Memorial Day concert, by the Washington National Symphony, dedicated to her late husband, Martin Luther King Jr. on May 31. The concert was originally scheduled to be held at the Lincoln Memorial May 30, where the Poor People's Campaign is encamped. Seated at left is Howard Mitchell, music director, Washington DC, June 1, 1968
Unknown
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Hon. Abraham Lincoln, Born in Kentucky, February 12, 1809 (Photographed by Brady)
Winslow Homer
November 10, 1860
Image Not Available for Freedom Marchers in Washington: An estimated 200,000 marched upon Washington earlier this week in a major demonstration asking for Civic Freedoms for all. A large section of the crowd, which came from all parts of the USA, consisted of Negroes. Photo shows a section of the large crowd which gathered in the United States capital for the demonstration, August 31, 1963
Freedom Marchers in Washington: An estimated 200,000 marched upon Washington earlier this week in a major demonstration asking for Civic Freedoms for all. A large section of the crowd, which came from all parts of the USA, consisted of Negroes. Photo shows a section of the large crowd which gathered in the United States capital for the demonstration, August 31, 1963
Unknown
1963
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
The Inaugural of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, at the Capitol, Washington, March 4, 1861.
Winslow Homer
March 16, 1861
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
"et moi, jean, je vis la sainte cité, la nouvelle jérusalem, qui descendait du ciel, d'auprès de dieu (And, I John, saw the heavenly city, the new Jerusalem, which descended from heaven...)" from the porfolio "Apocaplypse de Saint-Jean"
Odilon Redon
1899
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Nancy: There Is a Destiny Which Makes Us Brothers. None Goes His Way Alone. All That We Send Into the Lives of Others Comes Back Into Our Own. I am a Daughter, Sister, a Friend, a Lover, a Mother. I am You.
Tilly Woodward
1995
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
That in Which
Shusaku Arakawa
1978
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Presidents Buchanan and Lincoln Entering the Senate Chamber Before the Inauguration
Winslow Homer
March 16, 1861
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Lincoln Continental, Ukok Plateau, Siberian Altai, Russia, from "Ryoichi Excavations"
Patrick Nagatani
1995/2001
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Cliff of Gaeta, Chapel of the Holy Trinity, which split in two at the time of the Passion of our Lord (Rocher de Gayette, Chapelle de la Trinité lequel se fendit en deux lors de la passion de Notre Seigneur)
Israël Silvestre
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Lincoln Bar, Manhattan
Paul J. Woolf
ca. 1932
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Modo con que los Antiquos Españoles Cazaban los Toros à Caballo en el Campo (The Way in Which the Ancient Spaniards Hunted Bulls on Horseback in the Open Country), from "La Tauromaquia (The Art of Bullfighting)"
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1815