To the rescue
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To the rescue

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Associated Press

Maker
American

To the rescue

May 12, 1963
Gelatin silver print
Image: 18.2 x 14.3 cm (7 3/16 x 5 5/8 in.) (including caption)
Paper: 20.6 x 25.3 cm (8 1/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0351.0003
Inscriptions recto (printed): (BM17) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 12--TO THE RESCUE--A Negro / woman, without shoes and hysterical, is escorted from / the scene as fire burns furiously in a Negro section of / Birmingham, Ala. early today. Arson, looting and rioting / followed two bombings in Negro sections. Civil Defense / worker Sylvester Norris is her escort. (AP Wirephoto) / (JL11400mbr-bm) See AP Wire Story 1963

verso (stamped): NOTICE [underlined] / This picture is the property of the Associated / Press and may be used only for the purposes of / reproduction when authorized by the owner. It may / not be syndicated, rented or loaned, or used for / advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade. / The following credit must be printed under each reproduction of this picture: / ASSOCIATED PRESS / WIREPHOTO / REG. U.S. PATENT OFFICE

(ink): Wirephoto - general [crossed out] / Riots
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