Elvis Presley As a Teen In Tupelo: Rare Photo Unearthed

Kudos to Vanity Fair. The magazine unearthed a long-lost photograph that apparently depicts Elvis Presley (and possibly his hovering mother, Gladys) in 1948, standing on the street that divided the black and white sections of his home town of Tupelo, Mississippi. A few months after the photo was taken, his family fled for Memphis.

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So is the picture the real deal? And what's its significance in the annals of Elvis history?

Alanna Nash, the prize-winning Presley expert whose books have revealed the startling secrets of the singer’s hard-partying “Memphis Mafia” cronies, the women who loved him, and Presley’s manager, Col.