Closing in
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Closing in

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Associated Press

Maker
American

Closing in

June 16, 1947
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.5 x 21 cm (6 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)
Overall: 18 x 22.8 cm (7 1/16 x 9 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0357.0027
Inscriptions recto (typed on attached paper): 15137 A / Associated Press Radiophoto From New York / Caution: Use Credit / CLOSING IN / Chair-wielding Hungarians close in and menace / a solitary combatant during a battle-royal in / Szeged, Hungary, June 16, when nearly 150 / Communists, armed with weighed rubber hose, / brass knuckles and hatchet-like "fokos" broke / up a Szabadag (Freedom) Party meeting which / had been called expressly to determine whether / there was freedom of speech and assembly in / Hungary. This photo by Associated Press Staff / Photographer B.I. Sanders was received in / New York June 19 by radio from London. / Associated Press Radiophoto / hrm 1220aed 6/20/47 rca-l-lon / abcgd nyws mon sj tmc pa mex for

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