Title from caption on object: “Pistol-Wielding Police Clear Harlem Riot Area”, July 18, 1964

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.461

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary