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Source: Courier-Journal Source type: newspaper Document type: illustration Document title: “Death Chamber in Auburn Prison” Image size (in source, approx. h x w): unknown Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Louisville, Kentucky Date of publication: 30 October 1901 Volume number: 97 Issue number: 11991 Series: new series Pagination: 1 |
| Citation |
| “Death Chamber in Auburn Prison.” Courier-Journal 30 Oct. 1901 v97n11991 (new series): p. 1. |
| Transcription |
| full image of illustration |
| Keywords |
| Auburn State Prison (execution chamber: illustrations); Auburn State Prison (electric chair: illustrations). |
| Named persons |
| Leon Czolgosz [in notes]. |
| Notes |
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Descriptive text accompanying the illustration reads: “Room in Which
the Execution of Czolgosz Took Place, Showing Chair in Which the Assassin
Died. The Chairs Against the Wall Were for the Use of the Jury.”
The illustration (below) accompanies an article on the same page titled
“Leon Czolgosz Killed.”
Title herein taken from caption.
Image courtesy of Internet Archive. |
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Death Chamber in Auburn Prison