A Marilyn Monroe Signed Black and White School Photograph, 1941....

Description

A Marilyn Monroe Signed Black and White School Photograph, 1941. A panoramic shot of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High School summer class of 1941 featuring their most famous graduate in the sixth row from the top towards the right side, the 15 year-old Norma Jeane Baker, with her black fountain pen ink inscription on the verso reading "To 'Georgie' / A super, swell fellow in fact really keen (I really mean it Geo.) / Norma Jeane Baker / S' 41."
8" x 24 1/2"

PROVENANCE:
This piece was consigned directly by "Georgie" himself, a classmate who attended the same West Los Angeles school with the soon-to-be Marilyn Monroe.

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