Sale 2466 - Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks, February 15, 2018

284 c   (ATTICA PRISON UPRISING) An investigation binder of approximately 70 mug shots of prisoners suspected of participating in the takeover of Attica Correctional Facility. Including stickers designating the men by race (29 black men and 40 white men) and with the term “invalids” (3 men). Silver prints (73), the overall images measuring approximately 3x4 3 / 4 inches (7.6x12.1 cm.), about 15 with stamped and typed identifying information, others with identifying and numeric notations, in pencil, on verso. 1971 [1,800/2,200] From a New York State Police investigator involved in the inquest; to the Present Owner. The Attica Prison Uprising, also called the Attica Riot, was a protest undertaken by prisoners at Attica State Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, based upon prisoners’ demands for better living conditions and political rights. It was one of the most well-known and significant uprisings of the Prisoners’ Rights Movement, and approximately 1,000 of the penitentiary’s 2,200 inmates rioted, took control of the prison, and took 42 staff members hostage. By the time state police regained control of the prison, ten correctional officers and thirty three inmates were dead.