This is so cool: A collection of 13 original and most likely unpublished negatives from John F. Kennedy and Jackie Bouvier’s 1953 wedding are being auctioned off this month.
“The images were taken by a freelance photographer, Arthur Burges, who had been asked to be a back-up photographer for the wedding,” says Bobby Livingston of RR Auction. “They were discovered by family members in his darkroom after his passing in 1993.”
John and Jackie were married on September 12, 1953, at St. Mary’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island. The wedding, considered the social event of the season, was chronicled by Life magazine, which noted, “Their wedding turned out to be the most impressive the old society stronghold had seen in 30 years.”
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The negatives are housed in their original folder, labeled at a later date, “Pres. Kennedy 1953.” At auction they’ll be accompanied by printouts of each negative, the very first prints that have been made from these negatives.
Here are the new photos:
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Also up for grabs: A hand-written letter from John Lennon, asking a store owner if he return some baggy jeans.