- Collection:
- Prints and Photographs Collection (Chicago History Museum)
- Title:
- View of building in ruins following the 1968 Chicago riots
- Creator:
- Haun, Declan, 1937-1994
- Publisher:
- Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Historical Society
Chicago, Ill. : Chicago History Museum - Date of Original:
- 1968
- Subject:
- Fires
Riots
Ruins
Assassins
African Americans
Civil rights
Race riots--Illinois--Chicago - 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:
- View shows men in hard hats, probably a clean-up crew, standing near the wreckage of a building destroyed in the riots that erupted in South and West Side neighborhoods following news of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, Chicago, Illinois, 1968.
- Metadata URL:
- http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_pp/id/1262
- IIIF manifest:
- https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/iiif/2/chm_pp:1262/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:
-
View of building in ruins following the 1968 Chicago riots
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