Rare JFK wedding negatives cross auction block, sells for $34,000

RR Auction in Boston auctioned off 13 previously unpublished negatives of photos snapped at the wedding of John F. Kennedy to Jacqueline Bouvier. They were taken by freelance photographer Frank Ataman who was hired as a back-up photographer for the high society event.

An un-named doctor from Las Vegas cast the winning bid for the negatives at $34,073 on Wednesday.

The negatives, along with 5 x 4 printouts of each image, were only discovered in the darkroom of Aurthur C. Borgess, another photographer, after he passed away in 1993. According to Borgess' heir, Ruth B. Costa, the negatives may have been given to her father by Ataman, although they have no written documentation of how exactly they came to be in his possession.