Wait for food
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Wait for food

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Wait for food

July 17, 1967
Gelatin silver print
Image: 17.4 x 23.6 cm (6 7/8 x 9 5/16 in.) (including caption)
Paper: 20.5 x 25.4 cm (8 1/16 x 10 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0351.0009
Inscriptions recto (printed): (NN-1) NEWARK, N.J., JULY 17-WAIT FOR FOOD-Women rest on the curb outside a / food distribution center in Newark's Clinton Hill area today. Some persons / among the crowd of several hundred said they had been waiting there all / day for free food provided for residents of the riot-ridden area whose / normal sources of supply had ben cut off following five days of looting / and rioting. (AP Wirephoto) (jtm21930stf-hh) 1967 SEE AP WIRE STORY

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