Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 73

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CRIME--NEW ENGLAND)
A compelling group of 11 photographs documenting a murder trial purportedly in New Bedford, Massachusetts. With images showing the crowded court room (one with a participant's face cut out of the image), the jury, 2 pictures depicting a demonstration of the body and murder, and examination of the witnesses and involved parties, including a woman (the widow?) in tears; some of the prints with press cropping marks. Silver prints, sizes ranging from 5x4 to 6 1/2x8 1/2 inches (12.7x10.2 to 16.5x21.6 cm.), and the reverse, 5 with press cropping marks on recto, and one with a partial caption, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1899