Elderly man with bloodied head (Wilfrid Lapierre) being arrested and removed from Chamber of Commerce building by two policemen after protesting the banking crisis

Item Information

Title:
Elderly man with bloodied head (Wilfrid Lapierre) being arrested and removed from Chamber of Commerce building by two policemen after protesting the banking crisis
Description:
From a series of photographs labeled "Protest in Providence (elder arrest)." The man (Wilfrid Lapierre) had entered the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce Building with a rolled up American flag to confront Gov. Bruce G. Sundlun about the banking crisis, got into a fight with a security officer and was arrested.
Photographer:
Palmieri, Nancy
Date:
[March 8, 1991]
Format:
Photographs
Manuscripts
Genre:
Color photographs
Color negatives
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 001 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Nancy Palmieri Collection
Subjects:
Arrest--Rhode Island--Providence--Photographs
Demonstrations--Rhode Island--Providence--Photographs
Police--Rhode Island--Providence--Photographs
Lapierre, Wilfrid
Places:
Rhode Island > Providence (county) > Providence
Extent:
1 photograph ; 35 mm.
Link to Item:
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/muph074-b04-sl051-a-i003
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Providence (R.I.)
Language:
English
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
muph074-b04-sl051-a-i003