- Collection:
- Prints and Photographs Collection (Chicago History Museum)
- Title:
- National Guardsmen stand watch near Water Tower around time of Chicago Riots
- Creator:
- Haun, Declan, 1937-1994
- Publisher:
- Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Historical Society
Chicago, Ill. : Chicago History Museum - Date of Original:
- 1968
- Subject:
- Illinois. National Guard
Automobiles
Bicycles
Soldiers
Armed Forces
Riots
Streets
African Americans
Civil rights
Water towers - People:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Location:
- United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005
- Medium:
- color transparencies
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Two armed National Guardsmen police the area around the Water Tower (visible in the background) around the time of the Chicago Riots that broke out in South and West Side neighborhoods following news of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, in Chicago, Illinois, April 1968.
- Metadata URL:
- http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_pp/id/1261
- IIIF manifest:
- https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/iiif/2/chm_pp:1261/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- © Chicago Historical Society, published on or before 2014, all rights reserved.
- Original Collection:
- Prints and Photographs Collection (Chicago History Museum)
- Contributing Institution:
- Chicago History Museum
- Rights:
-
