Sold for:
$425
$425
763. Capital Punishment and Lynching Scrapbook. American, 1890s. Being a 100-page scrapbook of morbid interest, with hundreds of articles affixed to its pages, including accountings of executions, lynching, hangings, decapitations, and other methods of carrying out capital punishment, both legally and not. All contemporary news clippings, many illustrated. A fascinating insight into the late nineteenth century perspective on involuntary death in America.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-09-20
