<I>Panther Free Food Program. Children Prepare Bags of Food for Distribution at the Oakland Coliseum at the Black Panther Community Survival Conference, Oakland, California, March 1972</I>
date: label: Date
content: March 1972, printed 2014
name: label: Photograph by
content: Stephen Shames, American, born 1947
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Child or Children
label: Subject of
content: Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982
notes: label: Description
content: A black-and-white photograph showing children preparing bags of food to be distributed through the Panther Free Food Program at the Black Panther Community Survival Conference in Oakland, California. Four (4) children, two (2) boys and two (2) girls, are placing bags of puffed wheat cereal into brown paper grocery bags that have been organized in rows.
place: label: Place depicted
content: Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Black power
label: Topic
content: Cooking and dining
label: Topic
content: Health
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Politics
label: Topic
content: Resistance
label: Topic
content: Social reform
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1969-2001
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.123.8
objectType: label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
label: Type
content: portraits
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Stephen Shames
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Sheet): 19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.5 × 40.6 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 18 5/8 × 12 9/16 in. (47.3 × 31.9 cm)