Inscription Various red and black wax crayon marks on front of image indicate cropping
Printed in black wax crayon on verso, lower right: 11 am / 3 cols / Sheriff
Stamped in blue ink upside down on verso, left: JAN 26 1965
Stamped in blue ink on verso, top right: 1965 JAN 26 AM 9 28 / 1965 JAN AM 5 40 / ART DEPT
Stamped in black ink on verso, center: NOTICE / This picture is property of the Associated / Press and may be used only for the purposes of / reproduction when authorized by the owner. It may / not be syndicated, rented or loaned, or [illegible] / advertising purposes or for the purpose of [illegible] / The following credit must be [illegible] / each reproduction of the picture: / ASSOCIATED PRESS / WIREPHOTO / REG. U.S.PATENT [illegible]
Newspaper caption clipping affixed to verso, center: WOMAN SCUFFLES WITH SHERIFF - A Negro woman fights back as / Sheriff Jim Clark (hatless), of Dallas County, Ala. tried to wrestle his / billy club from her grip in a melee on the ground outside the Selma court- / house during the civil rights drive to register Negro voters. The woman, / Annie Lee Cooper, a Selma motel clerk, was subdued by Clark and his / deputies and arrested on charges of assaulting the sheriff. --AP Wirephoto.
Printed in black wax crayon upside down on verso, center: 83%m, / fix pg. / 4 ¼ inches x 5 ¼ in, / BILLY [circled]
Provenance Jo C. Tartt, Jr., Warrenton, Virginia; gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art, 2015
