Danville Firemen Turn a Hose on Negro Demonstrators (Primary Title)

Anonymous (Artist)

June 10, 1963
American
Photographs
Works On Paper
Gelatin silver print
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 10 in. (20.64 × 25.4 cm)
Image: 6 5/8 × 9 5/16 in. (16.83 × 23.65 cm)
2016.156
Not on view
Associated Press Wirephoto stamp in red ink on print verso: "Notice/ This picture is the property of the Associated/ Press and may be used". Stamp in green ink on print verso: "Property of Newspaper Division/ Jun 1963/ Field Enterprises, Inc." Typed label within lower margin of photographic image: "(BG1) Danville, Va., June 10 -- Demonstrators hosed down -- Danville firemen turn a hose on Negro/ demonstrators who staged a protest march in downtown Danville today in defiance of court orders./ Several marchers were arrested. (AP Wirephoto) (621800mbr-gs) 1963 (see AP wire story)".
Inscribed in blue ink on print verso: "Segregation" [encircled]
Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment

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