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- GLC#
- GLC06265
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1908
- Author/Creator
- Morton, Jack, fl. 1908
- Title
- [Color reproduction of a photograph depicting the lynching of four African Americans]
- Place Written
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Pagination
- 1 postcard Height: 9 cm, Width: 14.1 cm
- Primary time period
- Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
Beside the photo on the front of the postcard, printed text indicates that the lynching took place at Russellville, Kentucky, and the photograph was taken 1 August 1908. Depicts several lynching victims hung on a cedar tree. Caption states that "[t]his is a multiple cedar tree and these four make a total of nine men lynched on this tree, some were white men." Photograph includes two witnesses watching the lynching. A warning sign hangs from the neck of one lynched man. On verso, printed text indicates placement of address and stamp. Copyrighted by Morton, a salesman in Nashville, Tennessee.
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