Photos by chief Kennedy White House photographer to be auctioned

A trove of John F. Kennedy pictures by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton (pictured in 1962) was set for auction Thursday, including a rare image of Marilyn Monroe with the president and Robert Kennedy at a Democratic fundraiser. The photograph is contained in an envelope labelled “Sensitive Material — May 19, 1962” with 22 other gelatin silver prints of the event. Its presale estimate is $4,000 to $6,000.
“It’s the only image of the three of them together,” said Matthew Haley, Bonhams’ expert for books, manuscripts and historical photographs. “There are very few prints of this photo.”
The collection is being offered by Stoughton’s estate at Bonhams auction house. It includes 12,000 photographs, and is conservatively estimated to bring $200,000. Stoughton died in 2008 at age 88.

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