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Source: Deseret Evening News Source type: newspaper Document type: photograph Document title: “The Grim Electric Chair” Image size (in source, approx. h x w): unknown Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Salt Lake City, Utah Date of publication: 29 October 1901 Volume number: 52 Issue number: 293 Pagination: 1 |
| Citation |
| “The Grim Electric Chair.” Deseret Evening News 29 Oct. 1901 v52n293: p. 1. |
| Transcription |
| full image of photograph |
| Keywords |
| Auburn State Prison (electric chair: photographs). |
| Named persons |
| Leon Czolgosz [in notes]. |
| Notes |
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Descriptive text accompanying the photograph reads as follows: “The
above is a bona fide photograph of the electric chair at Auburn, New York.
In this grim piece of furniture the wretched Czolgosz sat this morning
and paid by electrocution the penalty of his awful crime.”
Title herein taken from caption.
Image courtesy of Chronicling America. |
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The Grim Electric Chair