Pole sitters
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Pole sitters

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Pole sitters

ca. 1963
Gelatin silver print
Image: 24.3 x 16.5 cm (9 9/16 x 6 1/2 in.) (including caption)
Paper: 25.3 x 20.6 cm (9 15/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0346.0011
Inscriptions recto (printed): (CX3) CHICAGO, August 13--POLE SITTERS--Man and woman sit on crossbar / atop utility poles today in Chicago--part of a protest against con- / struction of mobile classrooms which school board says are needed and / which demonstrators say are not. This is part of systematic hampering / of workmen on job, but since Chicago weather turned chilly and blustery, / it could be the pole sitters wish they'd brought sweaters.

[no inscription verso]
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