Publication information

Source:
Our Martyr Presidents
Source type: book
Document type: illustration
Document title: “The Shooting of President McKinley by the Anarchist Czolgosz”
Image size (in source, approx. h x w): unknown
Author(s): anonymous [illustration]; Coulter, John [book]
Publisher: Memorial Publishing House
Place of publication: none given
Year of publication: 1901
Pagination: none

 
Citation
“The Shooting of President McKinley by the Anarchist Czolgosz.” Our Martyr Presidents. By John Coulter. [n.p.]: Memorial Publishing House, 1901: [unnumbered plate].
 
Transcription
full image of illustration
 
Keywords
McKinley assassination (illustrations); Leon Czolgosz (illustrations); William McKinley (illustrations); James B. Parker (illustrations).
 
Named persons
James B. Parker [in notes].
 
Notes
Descriptive text accompanying the caption reads: “The colored man on the right is James D. Parker [sic], who first struck, then throttled the assassin, thus preventing a third shot being fired.”

Title herein taken from caption.

The illustration below appears on an unnumbered plate following page 356.

From title page: Our Martyr Presidents: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley: Their Illustrious Lives, Public and Private, and Their Glorious Deeds: Biographies, Speeches and Stories; Together with Histories of Noted Assassins and Assassinations, and Anarchy and Anarchists in the United States and Europe.

From title page: With an Introduction by Hon. Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois.

From title page: Superbly Illustrated with Etchings and Half-Tones from Original Photographs and Drawings by William Schmedtgen, Hugo Von Hofsten and Other Noted Artists.

From book cover : Our Martyr Presidents: Their Illustrious Lives and Glorious Deeds; Their Speeches and Stories; Also a History of Anarchy and the Assassinations of a Century.

Image courtesy of Internet Archive.
 
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The Shooting of President McKinley by the Anarchist Czolgosz