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Jack Kerouac holding Timmy the cat, with Gabrielle-Ange Lévesque Kéroack, his mother [photograph].

BIB_ID
454137
Accession number
MA 5040 PH 37
Credit line
Paris Review.
Description
1 photographic print
Notes
Corresponds to the negative MA 5040 PH 47. First of four copies held.
Part of Series 3 of The Paris Review Archives, which consists of photographs that were removed from the Series 1 (Editorial Correspondence) and Series 2 (Interviews) files, replaced with preservation photocopies, and placed in this series. Each folder contains a sheet describing where the items were removed from.
17.9 x 17.5 cm (image); 18.4 x 17.9 cm (sheet)
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso: Kerouac, his mother, and cat, "Timmy."
Provenance
Paris Review.
Summary
Enlarged, grainy half length shot of novelist and poet Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) seated in front of a fireplace holding and looking at a tabby cat, with his mother Gabrielle-Ange Lévesque Kéroack seated beside and behind him, looking at him.
Medium
Gelatin silver print