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Morton, Jack, fl. 1908 [Color reproduction of a photograph depicting the lynching of four African Americans]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06265 Author/Creator: Morton, Jack, fl. 1908 Place Written: Nashville, Tennessee Type: Postcard Date: 1908 Pagination: 1 postcard ; 9 x 14.1 cm. Order a Copy

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.

Morton, Jack, fl. 1908

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