2016.030.009
Transparency, Slide
12th St. State Cops
Color 35mm slide taken during the events of July 1967 showing a line of three Michigan State Police cars driving northwest along 12th Street, toward the camera. The cars are all equipped with loudspeakers. A boy rides a bike beside the cars. A man stands in the foreground beside a pole on the left, and several other pedestrians are visible on the sidewalk behind him. Signs for businesses along 12th Street, including the Whitmore House of Process Barber Shop, a Chinese restaurant, a Standard Oil gas station, the Meat Packing Outlet, and Carl's Shrimp. The steeple of St. Agnes Catholic Church stands in the distance.
The slide's paper frame is printed with "11, Aug 67F3," and the title is handwritten on the frame in pencil.
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