Detroit riot area
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Detroit riot area

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Detroit riot area

July 26, 1967
Gelatin silver print
Image: 17.9 x 23.9 cm (7 1/16 x 9 7/16 in.) (including caption)
Paper: 20.6 x 25.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0351.0053
Inscriptions recto (printed): (DT25) DETROIT, July 26 - DETROIT RIOT AREA - This air view covers the heart of the Detroit riot area / on the city's west side. Main street running diagonally across the picture is Twelfth Street where / the riot started and which suffered the most damage. The tower, top left is the Fisher Bldg. and / grey mass to right of tower is the General Motors Corp. Headquarters near which a Conn. woman was / killed in a motel by sniper fire Tuesday night. (AP Wirephoto) (h41821stf) 1967

[no inscription verso]
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