tear gas

05/20/69

A National Guard helicopter flies by the Campanile on the U.C. Berkeley campus spraying tear gas on demonstrators in Sproul Plaza. The National Guard had been ordered by Governor Ronald Reagan to...

The Long Memory
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster is printed on white paper. Poster depicts a scene of people in the street trying to escape from tear gas and polcie officers in riot gear. At the bottom right is white text that reads: "WTO...

untitled (Greek anarchist protest)
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

The top of the poster is white with Greek text in black, and a banner of red with Greek text in white. The center of the poster has a black and white photograph of a crowd of protestors, there is...

6-Jul-34

Tribune caption on the back, July 6, 1934-- "LOOK OUT- Rioters flee before onslaught of corps of officers, brandishing night sticks and shooting tear gas bombs from special guns. Strikers shown...

11-May-34

Oakland Tribune clipping on the back, May 11, 1934-- "These scenes, taken along the San Francisco Embarcadero, shows mobs running here and there, both in flight and in pursuit, as the 'fortunes of...

6-Jul-34

The caption on the back, July 6, 1934-- "Warfare in which no quarter was given or taken raged in the strife-torn Embarcadero area as 6000 strikers clashed repeatedly with 700 police armed with...

15-May-71

Description: Young men and women hover under an awning at the Rexall drug store along a Berkeley sidewalk. Police in riot gear and with gas masks are throwing a gas canister at them. Further down...

14-Jul-69

Depiction: Two Berkeley police, wearing gas masks, chase a crowd down a city street. A gas canister has just exploded to the right of the picture and people are jumping through the gas trying to...

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