Photograph of the second anniversary of the Attica Uprising
date: label: Date
content: 1973
name: label: Photograph by
content: Associated Press, American, founded 1846
label: Subject of
content: Frank Smith, American, 1933 - 2004
label: Subject of
content: Arthur O. Eve, American, born 1933
label: Subject of
content: Attica Correctional Facility, founded 1931
notes: label: Description
content: Photographic print of the second anniversary of the Attica Uprising. Two men are pictured standing in front of the Attica Correctional Facility building, with a banner behind them reading "[W]E DEMAND: / -DROP THE CHARGES AGAINST THE / ATTICA [BRO]THERS!" with two more bullet points illegible because behind the two men. The man in the background (thought to be Frank Smith) is wearing a white under shirt with an unbuttoned long sleeve shirt over top, with a straw hat on and a mustache. The man in the foreground (thought to be New York Assemblyman Arthur O. Eve) is speaking and pointing back at the man on the left with his PR arm, wearing a suit jacket and tie, has mustache and goatee. "SS" is written vertically in the bottom left corner of the front of the photograph. On the reverse, a newspaper clipping is taped onto the back reading, in black type, "New York Assemblyman Arthur O. Eve of buffalo addressed a rally yesterday outside the Attica, / N. Y., prison, marking the second anniversary of t he Attica revolt. Behind Eve was Frank Smith, one / of nearly 60 inmates indicted in connection with t he revolt, wihch took the lives of both inmates and /noninmates. Smith faces a murder charge. - A.P. wirephoto.] The newspaper clipping has a handwritten "3" in red at the bottom, and "SEP 10 1973" is stamped in red ink in the bottom right corner. Also on the reverse, "SEP 10 1973" is stamped vertically in the bottom left, as well as in the top right corner, both in red ink. Two handwritten notes in red ink are also on the reverse of the photograph: top border reading "Attica State Prison" and right above the newspaper clipping (under the tape) reading "New York State Prisons".
place: label: Place depicted
content: Attica Correctional Facility, Attica, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Justice
label: Topic
content: Law
label: Topic
content: Mass media
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Prisons
label: Topic
content: Resistance
label: Topic
content: Violence
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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, Anonymous Gift
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.58.5
objectType: label: Type
content: wire photographs
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Unknown - Restrictions Possible
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Rights assessment and 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 x D: 8 7/16 × 8 1/8 × 1/16 in. (21.4 × 20.6 × 0.2 cm)