Untitled (Police Line on Campus)
Artist
Unknown Maker
Date1970
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 × 9 3/8 in. (15.2 × 23.8 cm)
Support: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Support: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Paige Pinnell, 2011
Object number2011.14.19
DescriptionAlbuquerque police armed with patons, creating an impenetrable barrier to limit movement of protestors on the University of New Mexico campus.eMuseum Notes
No Title (Police Guard the Campus) shows Albuquerque police creating an impenetrable barrier. From a series of gelatin silver portrait photographs by unidentified photography students documenting the May, 1970, strike at the University of New Mexico. The strike occurred after four antiwar students at Kent State University by Ohio National Guardsmen while protesting the invasion of Cambodia by the United States military during the Viet Nam War. The photographs culminate with the bayonetting of thirteen individuals, however, none were killed.
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