Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

crop marks top left and top right in black ink; by unknown hand, top center in black ink: 4 COL X 9" DAILY; lower right in graphite: 854E; across bottom printed in image: (NY32) NEW YORK, JUNE 19--ROSENBERG SYMPATHIZERS ASSEMBLE--This is a view / of the crowd assembled on 17th Street in the Union Square area tonight / about an hour before the scheduled execution of atom spies Julius and / Ethel Rosenberg. The throngs gathered for a meeting sponsored by the / “committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case.” (AP Wirephoto) (See / wire story) (pr602022stf)1953; on verso, center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: [reproduction of image] / TENSE THRONG—Rosenberg sympathizers jammed / Seventeenth Street, just off Union Square in New York City, / about an hour before the Rosenbergs [underlined in red pencil] were electrocuted. Shrieks / and sobs broke from the crowd as the moment of execution / arrived. An attempt to form a parade was frustrated by police, / and the throngs eventually scattered as onlookers from a nearby / building waved American flags and cried, "Go home, you Com- / munist rats!" / —Associated Press Wirephoto.; lower right stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper: RECEIVED EXAMINER / REFERENCE LIBRARY / JUN 20 1953; lower right: JUN 20 1953; by unknown hand, bottom left in red pencil on applied newspaper: Julius