Title from caption on object: “Rosenberg Sympathizers Assemble”

June 19, 1953

American 20th Century

Associated Names
American 20th Century

Artist

Associated Press

Publisher

This is a photograph of a large protest crowd gathered on a city street. The street is densely packed with people holding signs. The crowd stretches far into the distance, filling the street between two tall buildings in an urban environment. The atmosphere appears tense, with the gathering of people suggesting a protest or demonstration. The foreground of the image is dominated by tightly packed individuals, creating a sea of heads and raised arms holding signs. The architecture of the buildings suggests a mid-20th-century city.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 21 × 17.5 cm (8 1/4 × 6 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 25.3 × 20.6 cm (9 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.419

Artwork history & notes

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

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