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Title
Carrying the coffin, Nicaragua, 1983
Creator
Cross, Richard, 1950-1983
Date Created and/or Issued
1983
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
A group of young men, three of which are wearing military uniform, carry one of the coffins, which contains one of the young men that were killed by Contras. One of the men in uniform is wearing a burgundy-colored beret and another one is wearing camouflage. The coffin is draped with the red-and-black flag of the Sandinista National Liberation Front and the blue-and-white flag of Nicaragua. The coffin is being carried to a cemetery after having been shown at a demonstration held in Managua's Plaza 19 de Julio in Managua.
Un grupo de muchachos, tres de los cuales portan uniforme militar, cargan uno de los ataúdes que contiene el cuerpo de uno de los muchachos asesinados por contras. Uno de los hombres en uniforme militar porta una boina color borgoña y otro porta camuflaje. El ataúd está cubierto por la bandera rojinegra del Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional y la bandera albiazul de Nicaragua. El ataúd es cargado hacia un cementerio después de haber sido presentado en una manifestación en la Plaza 19 de Julio de Managua.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
image/jpeg
Color slides
Extent
35 mm
Identifier
99.01.RCr.sl.B9.04.26.01
http://digital-collections.csun.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p17169coll1/id/2383
Subject
Documentary photographs
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Coffins
Military uniforms
Nicaragua. Ejército Popular Sandinista
Contras
Revolution (Nicaragua : 1979)
Place
Managua (Nicaragua)
Relation
99.01.RCr.sl.B9.04.26.01.tif
Richard Cross Photographs
California State University Northridge. University Library. Special Collections & Archives. Tom & Ethel Bradley Center

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