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

BIB_ID
454161
Accession number
MA 5040 PH 47
Credit line
Paris Review.
Description
1 photographic negative
Notes
Enlargement internegative apparently made from a Polaroid; date on print is "Nov 1967." Corresponds to prints MA 5040 PH 37-40.
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)
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 acetate negative