Glimpses: Vintage, Fine, and Vernacular Photography
Thu, Jul 23, 2026 11:00AM EDT
Lot 263
Ku Klux Klan Night Rally Press Photograph Pair.
Estimate: $200 - $300
Sold for
$300
Sold Price includes BP
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Ku Klux Klan Night Rally Press Photograph Pair. Keystone Press Agency. Two vintage press photographs depicting Ku Klux Klan gatherings, including a dramatic night scene with a burning cross surrounded by robed and hooded members, and a second image showing a larger assembled group in regalia with onlookers. Both prints bear Keystone Press Agency stamps on verso, with editorial markings, annotations, and handling wear consistent with newsroom use.
The stark imagery—particularly the illuminated cross-burning scene—captures the theatrical and propagandistic nature of Klan ceremonies, likely intended for newspaper publication. An important and unsettling visual record of 20th-century American extremism as documented through press photography.
The larger print measures approximately 10 x 7" and the smaller approximately 8 x 6".
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