(CRIME) In the Pillory

Sale 2342 - Lot 269

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(CRIME.) In the Pillory. (supplied title) Large mounted albumen photograph of the whipping post in Delaware, 5-1/2 x 3-7/8 inches (image size), a long inked caption on the reverse. New Castle, Delaware, circa 1901

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An uncommon photograph of an almost medieval form of punishment; astonishingly enough, still in existence until 1972. According to an long ink inscription on the reverse, the two men in the upper tier are Negroes, convicted of petty larceny. The man below being whipped "Hope" a bank robber.