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Fist fights took place outside the M.I.T. Instrumentation labs (Cambridge, Vietnam War protest)

(American, 1935–2004)
1969
Medium/TechniqueGelatin silver print, press photo (UPI Telephoto)
DimensionsImage: 20.3 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)
Credit LineBarbara M. Marshall Fund
Accession number2021.279
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ClassificationsPhotographs
Description
This photograph by Donald L. Robinson portrays a Vietnam protest Cambridge during the 1970s peace movement and captures the cause’s emotional intensity. This is a press photograph, of which the name of the specific photographer is, this case, known.
ProvenanceLate 1980s, sold at a small photography fair in the Boston area to Richard Kremer, Vermont; 2021, sold by Kremer to the MFA. (Accession date: April 14, 2021)