Antiwar demonstration at MIT's Draper Instrumentation Laboratories: police in riot gear with batons ready descend on protesters

Item Information

Title:
Antiwar demonstration at MIT's Draper Instrumentation Laboratories: police in riot gear with batons ready descend on protesters
Description:
From a series of images pulled by Peter Simon for publication. One of the images in this series was published in Moving On, Holding Still (1972) with the caption "A neat brawl (perfectly staged) during student demonstrations against MIT's Draper Instrumentation Labs. November 1969. Rocks were flying past my brain."
Photographer:
Simon, Peter, 1947-
Date:
[ca. November 1969]
Format:
Photographs
Manuscripts
Genre:
Black-and-white negatives
Black-and-white photographs
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 001 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Peter Simon Collection
The American Revolution Documentary Collection
Subjects:
Police--Massachusetts--Boston--Photographs
Anti-war demonstrations--Massachusetts--Cambridge--Photographs
Demonstrations--Massachusetts--Cambridge--Photographs
Student movements--Massachusetts--Cambridge--Photographs
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--Massachusetts--Boston--Photographs
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Instrumentation Laboratory
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Massachusetts > Middlesex (county) > Cambridge
Extent:
1 photograph ; 35 mm.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/muph009-vHG-sl108-i004
Terms of Use:
Copyright is held by Peter Simon. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries.
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Place of origin:
Cambridge (Mass.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
muph009-vHG-sl108-i004