Light side of Trieste riots
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Light side of Trieste riots

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Photograph

Light side of Trieste riots

March 23, 1952
Gelatin silver print
Image: 13.4 x 21.5 cm (5 1/4 x 8 7/16 in.)
Overall: 18 x 22.8 cm (7 1/16 x 9 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0357.0022
Inscriptions recto (typed on attached paper): ROM 994139 NEW YORK BUREAU / LIGHT SIDE OF TRIESTE RIOTS / TRIESTE: - A LAUGHING DEMONSTRATOR DODGES / A SOAKING BY A POLICE WATER TRUCK CALLED / OUT TO DISPERSE CROWDS AS 20,000 PROTESTED / DELAY IN RETURNING THE DISPUTED CITY TO / ITALIAN CONTROL. THE TRUCKS WERE CALLED / OUT WHEN NORMAL POLICE METHODS FAILED TO / BREAK UP THE FORBIDDEN PUBLIC ASSEMBLIES. ABOUT 30 WERE INJURED AND 60 ARRESTED IN THE RIOTS. / NY-1-2-3-4-5 MX / CREDIT (UNITED PRESS PHOTO) 3/23/52 (DB)

verso (stamped): UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS / NUE NEW YORK CITY / PLEASE CREDIT / TED PRESS PHOTO" / TURE IS SOLD TO YOU FOR YOUR / ON ONLY AND MUST NOT BE LOANED / OR USED FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES / RITTEN PERMISSION FROM THE UNITED / ACCEPTING THIS PICTURE YOU AGREE / HE UNITED PRESS HARMLESS FROM ANY / AMAGE ARISING BY REASON OF YOUR / OR PUBLICATION OF [illeg.] [half of this stamp is obscured with attached paper]

(grease pencil): mob scenes
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