Extremely rare class photo of teen Marilyn Monroe inscribed to a young beau

One-of-a-kind vintage 23 x 7.5 panoramic photo of the graduating Class of Summer 1941 Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High School in Los Angeles, with sweet, hopeful Norma Jeane Baker (later Marilyn Monroe) easily identifiable to the right of center in a sea of fresh faces, signed and inscribed amid other classmates in fountain pen on the reverse, To a super and swell friend (date at that) I mean it Bobby! Norma Jean Baker 3 41. Framed to an overall size of 25.25 x 8.25. In very good condition, with scattered mild toning to reverse, a classmates signature over Marilyns last name, but still legible, a repaired tear to the right of signature, and scattered creasing to image.

This unbelievable find, her junior high school class picture, shows a 15-year-old Norma Jeane at her most innocent and vulnerable. After a stint in the Los Angeles Orphans Home, a succession of foster homes, and brief stays with her mother, Norma Jeane was most likely living with Grace McKee, a friend of her mothers. That same year she met James Dougherty, whom she married the following year. While Norma Jeane Dougherty-signed items occasionally surface, this is the only Norma Jeane Baker autograph we have ever encountered! Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.

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• MArilyn
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• 1941
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• Baker
• jean

[tomitstube]

and if you act today we'll throw in a chinese marilyn monroe totebag, courtesy of the hollywood chamber of commerce.

rip marilyn, they're still trying to make money off you.

[broadjumper1]

Wow...8 HUNDRED students in her class. I wonder what this went for at auction

[damianasheron1]

DIVA eternamente love

[DietrichMarlena]

amazing video, i didn't know about this description she wrote when at the backside of this photo!

stunning news

[ernolaszloskincare]

Cool! We always the older/rarer pictures! We have Marilyn videos too, if you want to check them out : )

[sneyder69]

Cool ! tnx for posting .