id:			438493
accession number:	2021.28
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.28
updated:		2024-04-17 11:08:33.059000

Wide Open: The street near Brown Chapel, right background, at Selma, Alabama is open to normal traffic today. For days the area was sealed off by hundreds of police who faced demonstrators at a barricade in the foreground. The demonstrators, attempting to march to the courthouse for a memorial service for the Reverend James Reeb, were permitted to march yesterday. There were no police in the area today, March 16, 1965, 1965. America. Gelatin silver print, wirephoto; image: 16.6 x 22 cm (6 9/16 x 8 11/16 in.); paper: 20.6 x 25.3 cm (8 1/8 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg 2021.28

title:				Wide Open: The street near Brown Chapel, right background, at Selma, Alabama is open to normal traffic today. For days the area was sealed off by hundreds of police who faced demonstrators at a barricade in the foreground. The demonstrators, attempting to march to the courthouse for a memorial service for the Reverend James Reeb, were permitted to march yesterday. There were no police in the area today, March 16, 1965
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creation date:			1965
creation date earliest:		1965
creation date latest:		1965
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creditline:			Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
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culture:	America
technique:	gelatin silver print, wirephoto
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Photograph
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measurements: Image: 16.6 x 22 cm (6 9/16 x 8 11/16 in.); Paper: 20.6 x 25.3 cm (8 1/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "CVL-AL-385"
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	inscription:	Stamped in purple ink on verso: "MAR 19 1965"
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	inscription:	Written in blue pencil on verso: "Ala (circled)/cities (underlined twice)/Selma (underlined)"
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	inscription:	Stamped in black ink on verso: "NOTICE/This picture is the property of the Associated/Press and may be used only for the purpose of/reproduction when authorized (faded word) owner. It may/not be syndicated, rented (faded text)or used for/advertising purposes or for (faded text)/The following credit must be printed under/each reproduction of the picture./ASSOCIATED PRESS/WIREPHOTO/REG. U.S. PATENT OFFICE"
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PROVENANCE

	Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY
	date: ?-2021
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: March 1, 2021
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