Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 347

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(PHOTOGRAPHY.) News photograph of the Sons of Watts Community Patrol preparing for the annual Watts Festival. Wire photograph, 10 x 8 inches, with inked United Press International stamp on verso; minimal wear. Los Angeles, 11 August 1967

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The Watts Summer Festival was launched in 1966 to help the neighborhood get beyond the Watts Uprising. For the 1967 festival, Muhammad Ali served as the grand marshal.