Survived firebombing
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Survived firebombing

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Survived firebombing

July 25, 1967
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.8 x 23.8 cm (6 5/8 x 9 3/8 in.) (including caption)
Paper: 20.6 x 25.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0351.0021
Inscriptions recto (printed): (DT21) DETROIT, July 25-SURVIVED FIREBOMBING-J.W. Belden, who operates a / tailor shop and a nondenominational church in the Grand River Ave. and / Buchanan area of Detroit, stands in front of his tailor shop, one of / the few to survive the firebombings during the rioting that has shaken / Detroit since Sunday. Note the slogan "Sold Brother" on the window. He / told a reporter today of his unseccessful efforts to save other build- / ings and businesses from the bombings and lootings. Bolden, gray-haired / and 60, lives above the shop. (AP Wirephoto) (h31814stf) 1967

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