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Tempers start to flare, Boston (Vietnam War protest)

(American, 20th Century)
1966
Medium/TechniqueGelatin silver print, press photo
DimensionsImage: 17.8 × 22.9 cm (7 × 9 in.)
Credit LineBarbara M. Marshall Fund
Accession number2021.280
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPhotographs
Description
This photograph is of a Vietnam protest in Boston, and portrays 1970s peace movement and captures the cause’s emotional intensity. The image is a press photograph, of which the name of the specific photographer is not known. The work is credited to UPI Telephoto,
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)