[Tear gas and rifle grenade smoke surrounding the Alcatraz Prison cell block during a 3 day prisoner revolt in May, 1946]

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Local identifier: AAC-9474
Title: [Tear gas and rifle grenade smoke surrounding the Alcatraz Prison cell block during a 3 day prisoner revolt in May, 1946]
Date: 1946 May 3
Issuance: monographic
Associated Group: Associated Press
San Francisco Call Bulletin
San Francisco News-Call Bulletin
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: b&w.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Note: Folder: S.F. Islands-Alcatraz-Prison Breaks-May, 1946.
On back: "ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO. FROM SAN FRANCISCO. CAUTION: USE CREDIT. 'ROCK' SHROUDED BY GAS - While guards stand by on the roof (upper right) tear gas and grenade smoke shroud the cell block at the federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, May 3, as action against rioting convicts, cornered in the building continues. The rioters were blamed for the deaths of two guards and the wounding of 15 others. ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO. FX locs in ACext cx5&NYneg echo 5-3-46 stf-jbr".
"Associated Press Photo."
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Alcatraz Island (Calif.)
United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California
Subject Name: United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California
Keywords: Prison escapes
Bibliographic Number: .b10243252
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:139322