Images owning his Stock photography; at least 125 premium high resolution images that he captured through his lens. Other notable events; on Nov 11, 1983, he captured Senator Charles Mathias and Majority Leader Howard Baker discussing the aftermath of the 1983 United States Senate bombing. In 1997 he received the Kodak Professional White House National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Achievement Award. Although he had retired from photo journalism in 1990, he continued to make himself available to students of photo journalism and academia until his death in 2011. Press around the U.S. paid tribute to him, with lengthy obituaries featured in the Boston Globe, The New York Times and the Washington Post. In his lengthy obituary, The Boston Globe described how his colleagues referred to him as: from his practice of sacrificing what other photographers considered the best (or easiest) lighting conditions for a more arresting image. Personal He married Patricia Ann Hall, the second daughter of Bernard and Clara Hall, in secret on October 18, 1949, at Woodside Methodist Church in Silver Spring, Maryland. A second wedding ceremony, in public, followed on February 14, 1950. They had four children and for ten years ran a book store. “Atherton’s Used Book was located on Antique Row in Kensington, Maryland and operated between 1972 and 1982. Atherton had suffered from cardiovascular discomfort since a heart attack and bypass surgery in 1999. He died on November 29, 2011, aged 83, in Annapolis, Maryland, while walking alongside his wife towards a friends house, a short distance from his home. He was buried at St. Paul's United Methodist Church Memorial Garden, in Kensington, Maryland. His wife died 3 years later. Legacy Atherton has since been described as a major influence on photographers and news photography in the nation's capitol. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, when 250,000 people from all walks of life participated in the largest non-violent demonstration for civil rights that Americans had ever witnessed, an exhibit including Atherton’s photographs was held between August 28, 2013 and August 30, 2014. It was titled “A Day Like No Other: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary”. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum has identified 142 records, in its photograph collection that have either been attributed to Atherton, or he is a protagonist in the photographic image. Atherton’s peers also photographed him at notable historical events, such as a spoof picture