- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- St. Augustine High School, founded 1951
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Unidentified Child or Children
- Date
- after 1951
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 7 1/4 x 5 in. (18.4 x 12.7 cm)
- Description
- Black and white photograph of a kneeling student kissing a ring of a robed clergy member wearing a biretta. The student, wearing a graduation robe and mortarboard, kneels in front of a row of seated clergy dressed in full ecclesiastic robes. He kneels on a rug in a room with wood furniture and several large urns of plants and flowers. In the photograph's top margin are several handwritten numbers “2" (66), and 2A" on the bottom left corner. On the verso are the stamps "6619" and "W.D. Hogan." The string "1A58G5D" is handwritten at center bottom.
- Place captured
- New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Topic
- Catholicism
- Communities
- Education
- Men
- Religion
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of St. Augustine High School, New Orleans, LA
- Object number
- 2014.47.10
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.