Title from caption on object: “Pistol-Wielding Police Clear Harlem Riot Area”

July 18, 1964

American 20th Century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 17.2 × 21.4 cm (6 3/4 × 8 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.461


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, top right in graphite: [illegible] / [illegible] story; upper right stamped in purple ink: EMPIRE; by unknown hand, center left in graphite: Riots; center Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink perpendicular; lower center stamped in red ink perpendicular: JUL 21 1964; lower left stamped in blue ink inverted: '64 JUL 19 PM [obscured]; across bottom printed in applied photo paper: (NY21) NEW YORK, July [underlined in red ink] 19, —PISTOL WIELDING POLICE CLEAR HARLEM RIOT [circled in red ink] AREA— / Police with drawn pistols clear streets in Harlem in vicinity of Seventh / Avenue and 125th Street where negroes rioted last night following rally / protesting killing of negro boy by white policeman in Yorkville Thursday. / Wild disturbance in New York's negro area continued throughout night. / (AP Wirephoto) (See AP Wire Story) (f11322DNS) 1964


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