Black and white photograph of the NW staircase on the sixth floor of the TSBD

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Black and white photograph of the northwest stairway on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building before renovations began in the 1980s. The photograph shows the entrance to the stairs on the left side with a wooden wall and structure at the center. Photograph has a white border around the image with "Stairway" written sideways on the lower right corner.

Object Details

Object title:

Black and white photograph of the NW staircase on the sixth floor of the TSBD

Date:

01/26/1988

Terms:

Photographs

Staircases

Renovation

George, Eugene

Texas School Book Depository

Dallas

Medium:

Paper

Dimensions:

4 1/8 x 5 1/4 in. (10.5 x 13.3 cm)

Credit line:

Eugene George Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1989.044.0024

Curatorial Note:

This northwest corner of the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository was one of two evidentiary areas that was recreated, based on Dallas Police Department crime scene photographs, to its appearance on November 22, 1963 for The Sixth Floor Exhibit that opened in February 1989. At 1:12PM on November 22, 1963, investigators with the Dallas County Sheriff's Department found a rifle in this area, just ten minutes after officials found rifle shells behind barricade of boxes in the southeast corner of the sixth floor. - Stephen Fagin, Curator