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Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
A home in the Mississippi Delta
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

A home in the Mississippi Delta

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)
Artist/Vendor Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)
CultureAmerican
Date1963
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensions11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Overall, Image: 9 × 13 1/4 in. (22.9 × 33.7 cm)
InscribedDate, print number, and a credit to Chuck Kelton (who made the print) appears on the verso of the print.
Credit LineMuseum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank
Object number2000.14.19
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print. This is an image of a home in a field. Young children are on the porch and on the side of the house holding tires. A clothes line is to the left of the house.

ProvenanceThe artist; Chrysler Museum of Art Purchase, 2000. Published ReferencesDanny Lyon, _Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement: Lyndhurst Series on the South_ (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 105.
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Ruleville, Mississippi, 1964. Gwen Gillon, a SNCC Staff Member from Alabama, Conducts a Literacy Class During Freedom Summer
1964, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1964. Fannie Lou Hamer, Sharecropper from a Family of Twenty, Evicted for Trying to Register, Beaten in the Winona Jail, SNCC Field Secretary from Ruleville, and Future Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Candidate for Congress
1964, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. A Year After the Freedom Rides, Segregation Signs Still Stand Outside the Bus Terminal
1962, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Waiting for James Meredith, the First African American to Register at The University of Mississippi
1962
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1963. The Local Police Force Pose for a Photograph as Ministers from The National Council of Churches March to the Local Church
1963, printed 1999
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Danny Lyon
Southwest Georgia, 1963. SNCC Field Secretary Charles Sherrod and Randy Battle Visit a Supporter in the Countryside
1963
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Atlanta, Georgia, Winter 1963/64. Arrests During Mass Demonstrations Downtown
1963-1964, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Dr. Martin Luther King and Reverend Ralph Abernathy are Escorted from the Court House to the Jail House
1962
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Clifford Vaughs, a SNCC photographer is arrested
1964
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Eddie Brown, former gang leader and movement activist is arrested
1962
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Leesburg, Georgia, 1963. Arrested for Demonstrating in Americus, Teenage Girls are Kept in a Stockade in the Countryside
August 1963, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Sheriff Jim Clark arrests two young men demonstrating for voter registration on the steps of the Federal Building
1963
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