Tampa Bay Times

National Guard patrolling streets of Tampa (B/W photograph)

Tampa Bay Times, 1967. Photograph. Item #290150

B/W photograph, oblong format 8 x 9.75 inches. Photograph shows armed national guardsmen moving along street while behind broken storefront window Blacks are crowded in the store. Caption on rear: 'Defiant Negroes Jeer Patrolling Police and Guardsmen Through Storefront Smashed by Vandals,' (stamp dated Jun 12 1967, newspaper not identified), and 'National Guardsmen, on patrol, walk past a smashed storefront window during Tampa's 1967 race riot,' (stamp dated Jun 21 1967 Photo from Times file). First edition (first printing). A near fine copy. In red ink across bottom margin of photograph: 8/145 E865.

Price: $50.00