Guardsmen relax from riot duty
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Guardsmen relax from riot duty

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Guardsmen relax from riot duty

July 27, 1967
Gelatin silver print
Image: 18.2 x 24.1 cm (7 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.) (including caption)
Paper: 20.6 x 25.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0351.0057
Inscriptions recto (printed): (DT7) DETROIT, JULY 27 -- GUARDSMEN RELAX FROM RIOT DUTY -- Michigan National / Guardsmen relax for the first time since they were brought into Detroit / Sunday to help put down widespread rioting. It was calm in the area / Wednesday night and today after four days of violence that swelled into / one of the costliest riots in the nation's history. / (AP Wirephoto) (FN51350stf) '67

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