Photographic postcard of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, taken by Lawrence Beitler. Shipp and Smith were murdered by a mob in Marion, Indiana on August 7, 1930
Description:
Lawrence Beitler (1885-1960) was an American studio photographer., Caption in English., Title devised by cataloger., Place and date of creation supplied by cataloger., and Printed caption on verso.
Subject (Geographic):
Indiana, Marion., Marion, Grant County, and Marion (Ind.)
Subject (Name):
Beitler, Lawrence., Shipp, Thomas, 1911-1930, and Smith, Abram, -1930
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, African Americans, Violence against, Lynching, Racism, and Race relations
In pencil on verso of Amos Lincoln Wilder photograph: Grandfather of Thornton Wilder / Dr Father / Amos Lincoln Wilder / Born 1824 / Pembroke Maine / Died Nov 30 - 1894 / S[on] of Theophilus Wilder, the / Baptist deacon + store-keeper / of Mill-town but born in / the ancient Pembroke, Maine / hons(?) / My father (see this picture - studied dentistry in / Baltimore about 1868 moved to / Augusta - oil clothes factory., In pencil on verso of Charlotte Porter Wilder photograph: Charlotte Porter / Wilder / Born 1830 / d - Nov 30 1907 / Mother of Amos Parker W. / Grandmother of / Thornton N. Wilder., and Two cards included with case record names, birth and death dates of subjects.
Photographs compiled by an unidentified compiler of the Black Butte Mine in Lane County, Oregon, 1910-1920. Depicted are the mining camp and unidentified miners in mines or at mine shaft entrances. The only photograph with a caption is of an illustration done by artist Edward Lange of the Black Butte Mining District
Description:
The Black Butte Mine, a mercury mine in Lane County, Oregon, was in operation from the 1890s until the late 1960s., Caption in English., Title devised by cataloger., and Place of creation and date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon., Oregon, and Lane County (Or.)
Subject (Name):
Lange, Edward, 1846-1912. and Black Butte Mine.
Subject (Topic):
Mercury, Mercury mines and mining, Miners, Mines and mineral resources, and Mining camps