Illinois National Guard troops stand on a Chicago street in area where violent disturbances have caused death and injury the last three nights, July 15, 1966. Governor Otto Kerner called up 3,000 National Guard troops today in an attempt to halt the strife on Chicago's West Side

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Illinois National Guard troops stand on a Chicago street in area where violent disturbances have caused death and injury the last three nights, July 15, 1966. Governor Otto Kerner called up 3,000 National Guard troops today in an attempt to halt the strife on Chicago's West Side
Illinois National Guard troops stand on a Chicago street in area where violent disturbances have caused death and injury the last three nights, July 15, 1966. Governor Otto Kerner called up 3,000 National Guard troops today in an attempt to halt the strife on Chicago's West Side
DateJuly 17, 1966
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsOverall: 8 1/8 × 8 3/4 in. (20.6 × 22.2 cm) Image: 6 3/4 × 8 3/8 in. (17.1 × 21.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2022.15.269
Not on view
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Provenance 2022: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art)
Markings Verso, top center: "[COPYRIGHT, SEATTLE TIMES CO]"
Verso, center: "A.P. wirephoto / NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS HAD BAYONETS FIXED IN CHICAGO YESTERDAY. / [JUL 17 1966]/ Chicago Slums to Be Given Hydrant Use in Hot Weather / CHICAGO, July 16.--(UPI) / --Chicago's riot - wracked / West Side soon will have / spray nozzles on its fire hy- / drants and a citizens com- / mittee to recomment ways / of smoothing police-com- / munity relations. / Mayor Richard Daley has / assured that these things / would be done to ease ten- / sion in the Negro slums and / high-rise housing projects. / Both Daley and the Rev. / Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., / met for 90 minutes yester- / day. / It was a face-saving con- / frontation for both leaders / and police officials were / hopeful that it would help re- / store peace. / Daley also promised park / improvements, but their pact / varely (sic) scratched the surface / of the demands taped on the / doors of the City Hall last / week. / THE MAYOR agreed to / the spray nozzles to allow / children to play in the wa- / ter in hot weather. / Police effort to shut off an / illegally opened hydrant, / started the riots. / Meanwhile, nearly 3,500 / Illinois National DGuardsmen / loitered outside the debris / littered Negro slum area, / confident they had stemmed / the lawlessness that left / two dead of gunshot wounds. / THE COMMANDER said / he planned to send 2,200 men / on truck and foot patrols at / dusk. / Major Gen. Francis Cane / said those left on the streets were young people "playing" / a game of cops and robbers. / The general public is not in- / volved," he said. / He said troops would stay / until the area "has returned / completely to normal." (newspaper pasted)
Verso, center: "[JUL 17 1966] and [XXA 54093]"
Published References Illustrated: Associated Press ID # 66071501033
Inscribed Verso, top center: "riots (circled)" and "Demonstration (crossed out)"
In the midst of gloom of a rainy Friday night in the Army, the troops in the Chicago Av. Armory got the good news; Some of them will be home for Easter. Brigadier General Richard T. Dunn, commander of the 5,000 National Guard troops called to active duty after disturbances Thursday, said: "If everything remains quiet and no disturbances grow out of the peace parade Saturday we will begin phasing out troops by midnight tomorrow."
In the midst of gloom of a rainy Friday night in the Army, the troops in the Chicago Av. Armory got the good news; Some of them will be home for Easter. Brigadier General Richard T. Dunn, commander of the 5,000 National Guard troops called to active duty after disturbances Thursday, said: "If everything remains quiet and no disturbances grow out of the peace parade Saturday we will begin phasing out troops by midnight tomorrow."
Date: April 5, 1969
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.271
Roosevelt Road is Quiet Today: little traffic, vehicles or pedestrian, in to be seen on Chicago's Roosevelt Road (alternate US 30) following a night of relative calm. Police battled rioters for two nights previous and the Illinois National Guard was brought in. Patrolling jeep with armed guardsmen is seen at center and a police car is parked at right
Roosevelt Road is Quiet Today: little traffic, vehicles or pedestrian, in to be seen on Chicago's Roosevelt Road (alternate US 30) following a night of relative calm. Police battled rioters for two nights previous and the Illinois National Guard was brought in. Patrolling jeep with armed guardsmen is seen at center and a police car is parked at right
Date: July 15, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.274
Time On His Hands: Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman, leader of the Youth International Party (Yippies), has time to think after he surrendered to authorities in Chicago Thursday to begin serving a 15-day jail sentence for resisting arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities from his conviction stemming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention disturbances
Time On His Hands: Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman, leader of the Youth International Party (Yippies), has time to think after he surrendered to authorities in Chicago Thursday to begin serving a 15-day jail sentence for resisting arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities from his conviction stemming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention disturbances
Date: December 3, 1970
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.294
Dr. King Leads Off Second Lap: Dr. Martin Luther King, extreme right, civil rights leader, strides out of camp near Selma, Alabama, as his protest march started its second lap. Next to King is SNCC Chairman John Lewis. A soldier ordered to duty along with several thousand troops to guard the marchers, stands with rifle along the roadside. The marchers are aiming for the State Capitol at Montgomery.
Dr. King Leads Off Second Lap: Dr. Martin Luther King, extreme right, civil rights leader, strides out of camp near Selma, Alabama, as his protest march started its second lap. Next to King is SNCC Chairman John Lewis. A soldier ordered to duty along with several thousand troops to guard the marchers, stands with rifle along the roadside. The marchers are aiming for the State Capitol at Montgomery.
Date: March 22, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.277
RAAF Helicopter Ambulances in Vietnam Fighting: Among the many operational tasks performed by the versatile RAAF Iroquois helicopters of No. 9 Squadron in Vietnam, a new one-- aerial ambulance for wounded Viet Cong prisoners-- has been added. They were called on to fly two prisoners-- one a stretcher case who needed medical treatment in flight and the other blind-folded walking wounded case-- from the battle area to hospital at Vung Tau. Since their arrival in Vietnam with the Australian Task Force in June, the RAAF Iroquois have been used for carrying troops and wounded, dropping ammunition to hard pressed Australian troops, dropping leaflets and carrying out aerial reconnaissance patrols...
RAAF Helicopter Ambulances in Vietnam Fighting: Among the many operational tasks performed by the versatile RAAF Iroquois helicopters of No. 9 Squadron in Vietnam, a new one-- aerial ambulance for wounded Viet Cong prisoners-- has been added. They were called on to fly two prisoners-- one a stretcher case who needed medical treatment in flight and the other blind-folded walking wounded case-- from the battle area to hospital at Vung Tau. Since their arrival in Vietnam with the Australian Task Force in June, the RAAF Iroquois have been used for carrying troops and wounded, dropping ammunition to hard pressed Australian troops, dropping leaflets and carrying out aerial reconnaissance patrols...
Date: September 6, 1965
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.288
General Charles de Gaulle in El Fasher, in the army of the British Governor of Darfur Province, Free French troops on their way across Africa from Cameroon, Sudan
General Charles de Gaulle in El Fasher, in the army of the British Governor of Darfur Province, Free French troops on their way across Africa from Cameroon, Sudan
George Rodger
Date: 1941
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.201
Professional image by David Revette
To Major General Cuyler this View of FORT GEORGE, in the Island of Tobago, taken from Morne Grace, the place where the Troops halted previous to the, Assault on the night of the 14th April 1793
Frederick Maitland
Date: published August 20, 1793
Medium: Halftone engraving
Object number: 1971.52
Household Troops
Household Troops
George Cruikshank
Date: published December 1827
Medium: Hand-colored etching on paper
Object number: 1959.153
Entertaining the Troops, 1941-45
Entertaining the Troops, 1941-45
Dmitri Baltermants
Date: 1941-45
Medium: Gelatin silver Estate print, 2003
Object number: 2021.12.15
A South Vietnamese soldier guided civilians from areas of street fighting in Southern Da Nang to the relatively safe rear. The homes of the people pictured in Hoa Vang village had been occupied by North Vietnamese troops
A South Vietnamese soldier guided civilians from areas of street fighting in Southern Da Nang to the relatively safe rear. The homes of the people pictured in Hoa Vang village had been occupied by North Vietnamese troops
Unknown artist
Date: November 1968
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto with applied pigment
Object number: 2022.15.290
Prayers to Bridge Barbed Wire: a Buddhist monk and a nun pray as they kneel with some 200 demonstrators on a street in Saigon today. In a new wave of protests against the government of Premier Ky, some 10,000 persons gathered outside the Buddhist Institute and began a march toward the center of South Vietnam?s capital. Troops broke up the demonstration and ringed this group with barbed wire
Prayers to Bridge Barbed Wire: a Buddhist monk and a nun pray as they kneel with some 200 demonstrators on a street in Saigon today. In a new wave of protests against the government of Premier Ky, some 10,000 persons gathered outside the Buddhist Institute and began a march toward the center of South Vietnam?s capital. Troops broke up the demonstration and ringed this group with barbed wire
Unknown artist
Date: May 29, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.184
A Royal Laotian soldier, with painted face and leaf trimmed uniform, pointed to an object of suspicion while on a training patrol in the jungle near Vientiane. He was with troops being trained in jungle warfare by American instructors
A Royal Laotian soldier, with painted face and leaf trimmed uniform, pointed to an object of suspicion while on a training patrol in the jungle near Vientiane. He was with troops being trained in jungle warfare by American instructors
Unknown artist
Date: July 1962
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print with applied pigment
Object number: 2023.12.185