Title from caption on object: “Scene from Newsreel of Fatal May Day Steel Strike Riot”, May 30, 1937

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 16.8 × 21.9 cm (6 5/8 × 8 5/8 in.)

sheet: 17.8 × 23.3 cm (7 × 9 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.304

Artists / Makers

Orlando Lippert (artist) American, 1907 - 1982

Paramount News (publisher) 1927 - 1957

Wide World Photos (publisher)

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Inscription

on verso, upper left stamped in purple ink: JUL 8 1937; upper center stamped in black ink: REPUBLIC STEEL CO STRIKE / RIOT MAY 30, 1937; upper right printed in black ink on applied barcode label: HBX-464-BS; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: 385-253; center Wide World Photos copyright stamp in purple ink crossed out in graphite; bottom center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: PLEASE WATCH CREDIT: (C) BY PARAMOUNT PICTURES INC. / FROM WIDE WORLD PHOTOS - 873840 / SCENE FROM NEWSREEL OF FATAL / MAY DAY STEEL STRIKE RIOT / SOUTH CHICAGO, ILL.- THIS SCENE OF POLICE BATTLING STEEL / STRIKERS AND SYMPATHIZERS IS FROM THE NEWSREEL OF / PARAMOUNT PICTURES MADE AT THE FATAL RIOT HERE MAY 30 AT / THE PLANT OF THE REPUBLIC STEEL CORPORATION. JUST LEFT / OF CENTER IN THE PICTURE A POLICEMAN MAY BE SEEN / SWINGING HIS CLUB ON A FALLEN STRIKER. THESE PICTURES / WERE BANNED UNTIL TODAY AND HAVE BEEN STUDIED BY THE / SENATE CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING THE / OUTBREAK. / H-7/2/37 (s)

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary