Overturn car during pitched battle
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Overturn car during pitched battle

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Associated Press

Maker
American

Overturn car during pitched battle

August 28, 1949
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.6 x 20.9 cm (6 9/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Overall: 18 x 22.8 cm (7 1/16 x 9 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0357.0015
Inscriptions recto (typed on attached paper): 7890 C / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / OVERTURN CAR DURING PITCHED BATTLE / A GROUP OF MEN OVERTURN THIS CAR, ITS WINDSHIELD / BROKEN WITH A ROCK, DURING PITCHED BATTLE BETWEEN / WAR VETERANS AND CONCERT-GOERS IN WOOD PICNIC / GROVE NEAR PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK, THE NIGHT OF AUG. 27. / SINGER PAUL ROBESON, SCHEDULED TO GIVE A RECITAL, DID NOT APPEAR. AT LEAST EIGHT PERSONS WERE / INJURED, TWO SERIOUSLY, IN THE FIERCE THREE-HOUR / RIOT. / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO / US 8/28/49 725P DNS 52 / EAST ABC [illeg.] ST MX PR2 NYWS8 NR BING MON MEX / LON ROME PAR BER FOR / (NYC WW TMC ALL MAGS OUT)

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 NEWSPHOTO
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