Title from caption on object: “Scene from Newsreel of Fatal May Day Steel Strike Riot”
May 30, 1937
Artist, American, 1907 - 1982
Publisher, 1927 - 1957
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 16.8 × 21.9 cm (6 5/8 × 8 5/8 in.)
sheet: 17.8 × 23.2 cm (7 × 9 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.306
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Tribune Company, Chicago; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, upper right printed in black ink on applied barcode label: HBX-462-BS; center Wide World Photos, Inc. copyright stamp in purple ink perpendicular; by unknown hand, center in graphite inverted: 385-288; lower left stamped in purple ink inverted: JUL 8 1937; lower center stamped in black ink inverted: REPUBLIC STEEL CO MMMMM STRIKE / RIOT MAY 30; bottom center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: PLEASE WATCH CREDIT: (C) BY PARAMOUNT PICTURES, INC. / FROM WIDE WORLD PHOTOS: 873844 / SCENE FROM NEWSREEL OF FATAL / MAY DAY STEEL STRIKE RIOT. / SOUTH CHICAGO, ILL. --- THIS SCENE OF POLICE HOLDING / BACK STRIKE SYMPATHIZERS IS FROM THE NEWSREEL MADE BY / PARAMOUNT PICTURES MAY 30 AT THE FATAL RIOT AT THE / REPUBLIC STEEL PLANT. THE PICTURES HAVE BEEN BANNED / UNTIL TODAY AS TOO DANGEROUS TO SHOW THE PUBLIC AND / HAVE BEEN STUDIED BY THE SENATE CIVIL LIBERTIES / COMMITTEE IN ITS INVESTIGATION OF THE STRIKE AND RIOT. / c-7/2/37 s