President Lyndon Baines Johnson
Photographer
Associated Press
(founded 1846)
Sitter
Lyndon Baines Johnson
(1908 Stonewall, Texas - 1973 Stonewall, Texas)
DateOctober 28, 1954
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions5 5/16 × 9 1/4 in. (13.5 × 23.4 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Nancy Tucker
Object numberPA2019.041.045
DescriptionUnited States President Lyndon Baines Johnson kisses the hand of Marilyn McGee, a drum majorette for the marching band of the University of New Mexico, during a performance of the band outside of the Franciscan Hotel in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. Johnson is wearing a trench coat and McGee is wearing a white dress. She smiles at Johnson as he raises her hand to his mouth. The band members play their instruments in the background and groups of men stand in the street. A caption typed below the photograph reads, "PRESIDENTIAL BUSS -- President Johnson stopped on his way to deliver a major speech to kiss the hand of this young drum majorette Marilyn McGee. The band was formed up outside the hotel to greed the President as he headed toward the University of New Mexico campus."On View
Not on view
October 28, 1964
October 28, 1974
October 28, 1964
ca. 1929
