Lynching_of_Laura_and_L._D._Nelson,_25_May_1911,_photograph_2899.jpg


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English: The lynching of Laura and Lawrence Nelson on 25 May 1911 in Okemah , Oklahoma.
Source Gelatin silver print. Real photo postcard. 5 1/2 x 3 1/2. Printed and distributed in 1911.

This version was taken from here . Also in James Allen, Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America , Twin Palms Publishers, 2000, and Kaufman 2011, p. 147 , attributed to the Research Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society.

Also see James West Davidson, ' They say': Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race , Oxford University Press, 2007, p. 6ff.

Author George H. Farnum, Okemah photographer. See George Henry Farnum Collection, Oklahoma Historical Society Research Division.
Other versions File:Lynching of Laura Nelson and her son 2.jpg This is one of two images of the bridge scene known to have survived. This photograph is numbered 2899. There is another version numbered 2897. See File:Lynching of Laura Nelson and her son 1.jpg .

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office ) before January 1, 1929.

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