Title from caption on object: “Rioting in Hungary”, October 25, 1956

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 17 × 21.7 cm (6 11/16 × 8 9/16 in.)

sheet: 18.1 × 22.8 cm (7 1/8 × 9 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.425

Artists / Makers

Unknown, 20th Century (artist)

United Press Association (publisher)

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Inscription

across bottom printed in image: NXP/RFRK1116681-10/25-BUDAPEST: Hungarian rioters, carrying Hungarian flag, ride through / Budapest streets on captured Russian tank. Hungarian rebels captured 10/25 a radio trans- / mitter in the eastern city of Miskolc and broadcast stiff terms for an end to their up- / rising. It was the first word from the Rebels--who for three days have held out against / Soviet armed strength. This is one of the first pictures to come out of riot-torn Hungary. / UNITED PRESS TELEPHOTO. we; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in pink ink circled and perpendicular: Hungary-Rebellion- / Budapest; upper left United Press copyright stamp in black ink perpendicular; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: RIOTING IN HUNGARY / These men have seized a Russian tank; center stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: OCT 27 1956 S; by unknown hand, center in graphite circled: [illegible] p9 Sat / 2 col halftone; lower left stamped in blue ink perpendicular: ENGRAVING / 1956 OCT 26 PM 4:53

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary