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Title
Paramilitary men guard town with rifles, Alegría, 1983
Creator
Cross, Richard, 1950-1983
Date Created and/or Issued
1983-02
Publication Information
California State University, Northridge
Contributing Institution
California State University, Northridge
Collection
Richard Cross Photographs (Bradley Center)
Rights Information
Use of images from the collections of the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center is strictly prohibited by law without prior written consent from the copyright holders. The responsibility for the use of these materials rests exclusively with the user.
The Bradley Center may assist in obtaining copyright/licensing permission to use images from the Richard Cross collection. http://www.csun.edu/bradley-center/contact
Description
Two members of the Salvadoran paramilitary army are guarding the town of Alegría. One of them is standing on the steps of a partially damaged house while the other one walks in the opposite direction. They are both holding an FN FAL battle rifle of Belgian origin. Both of them are wearing civilian clothes. Two residents of the town, a man and a woman, are looking at the scene from two different windows and a third resident, a woman in a dress, is on the steps next to the paramilitray soldier.
Dos miembros del ejército paramilitar salvadoreño custodian la ciudad de Alegría. Uno de ellos está parado en los escalones de una casa parcialmente dañada mientra el otro se aleja. Los dos sostienen un fusil de combate FN FAL de origen belga. Ambos llevan ropa de civil. Dos residentes de la ciudad (un hombre y una mujer) miran la escena desde dos ventanas diferentes y una tercera residente, una mujer con un vestido, está en los escalones junto al soldado paramilitar.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
image/jpeg
Black-and-white negatives
Extent
35 mm
Identifier
99.01.RCr.N35.B11.01.03.29
http://digital-collections.csun.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p17169coll1/id/3296
Subject
El Salvador--History--1979-1992
Buildings--War damage
Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional
Graffiti
Place
Usulután (El Salvador)
Relation
99.01.RCr.N35.B11.01.03.29.tif
Richard Cross Photographs
California State University Northridge. University Library. Special Collections & Archives. Tom & Ethel Bradley Center

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