Lot of 2 silver gelatin photographs, each approx. 4.75 x 6.5 in., depicting the lynching of African Americans Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, which took place on August 7, 1930 in Marion, IN. Shipp and Smith had been arrested and charged with robbing and murdering a white factory worker and raping his girlfriend. The night of the lynching, with the cooperation of police officers, a large crowd broke into the jail with sledgehammers, beat the two men, and hanged them. Both images were produced by studio photographer Lawrence Beitler, who documented the dead bodies hanging from the tree, surrounded by a crowd of spectators; however, only one of the photographs is credited to Beitler in the negative. Condition: One with period inked caption on verso. Other with typed caption on verso. Rust from paperclip visible on verso on one print. Each with some light corner and edge wear.
Lot of 2 silver gelatin photographs, each approx. 4.75 x 6.5 in., depicting the lynching of African Americans Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, which took place on August 7, 1930 in Marion, IN. Shipp and Smith had been arrested and charged with robbing and murdering a white factory worker and raping his girlfriend. The night of the lynching, with the cooperation of police officers, a large crowd broke into the jail with sledgehammers, beat the two men, and hanged them. Both images were produced by studio photographer Lawrence Beitler, who documented the dead bodies hanging from the tree, surrounded by a crowd of spectators; however, only one of the photographs is credited to Beitler in the negative. Condition: One with period inked caption on verso. Other with typed caption on verso. Rust from paperclip visible on verso on one print. Each with some light corner and edge wear.
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