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Image Not Available for Downtown Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee, March 1968, during Sanitation Workers’ strike
Downtown Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee, March 1968, during Sanitation Workers’ strike
Image Not Available for Downtown Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee, March 1968, during Sanitation Workers’ strike

Downtown Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee, March 1968, during Sanitation Workers’ strike

Artist (American, 1922-2007)
CultureAmerican
Date1968, printed 2002
MediumGelatin silver print on fiber paper
Dimensionssheet: 13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in. (35.4 × 27.6 cm)
Classificationsphotographs
Credit LineMr. Tony Decaneas, Decaneas Archive
Object number2017.25.5
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