Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: MERRITT III, Vernon
Event Date: 1968-04-06
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.177777

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscriptions]; verso, stamped in black ink: 4 68 5860; handwritten in black ink: Dr. M. L. King Body arriving at / Atlanta Airport – Georgia / 4//6//68; handwritten in pencil: C4-24; stamped in black ink, rectangle border: BLACK STAR / PHOTO LIBRARY PRINT [dot] NYC / [line] / [line] / CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN [dot] RETURN AFTER USE.; stamped in black ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / VERNON MERRITT III / from BLACK STAR

Tagasauris Keywords: 4 people; Aerial View; Airplane; Casket; Coffin; Day; Face; Full-Length Portrait; Group of people; Low angle View; Male; Male; Man; Mid adult; No Photostyle; Outdoors; Religion and belief; Still Life
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: PERSONALITIES / MARTIN LUTHER KING - FUNERAL FAMILY AND MOURNERS
Retouching: N