[Smoke surrounding the main Alcatraz Prison cell block during a three day prisoner revolt in May, 1946]

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Local identifier: AAC-9504
Title: [Smoke surrounding the main Alcatraz Prison cell block during a three day prisoner revolt in May, 1946]
Date: 1946 May 3
Issuance: monographic
Associated Group: International News Photos (New York, N.Y.)
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 front: "F-24:-SAN FRANCISCO:--(INP SOUNDPHOTO)--Flag flies at half mast amid the smoke of the battle raging on Alcatraz between convicts and guards. And the fight, which has been continuing for more than 24 hours, continues tonight, with gunfire continuing thru the hours of darkness. Guards and US Marines, apparently bent on giving the cornered convicts no rest, deliver harassing fire against barred windows and through any means of access to area in which prisoners are trapped. SF 5/3/46 Allen C. Campbell pix.".
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: .b10243550
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:139352