(RADICALISM) Group of Sacco and Vanzetti press photographs

Sale 2675 - Lot 255

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(RADICALISM.) Group of Sacco and Vanzetti press photographs. 20 photographs including 2 duplicates, 8 x 10 inches or smaller, with inked stamps of the Brown Brothers photo agency on verso, most with manuscript or typed captions on verso; minor wear and minimal dampstaining, apparently a mix of contemporary and early copy prints. Massachusetts and New York, 1921-1927 images

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Italian-American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were charged with a 1920 murder and armed robbery in Massachusetts, were controversially sentenced to death in 1921, and were executed in 1927. 7 of these photos depict the defendants. Others show family members, witnesses, Judge Thayer, evidence presented in the trial, rallies in support of the defendants, and the crowd outside the prison when they were executed.

With--an unrelated photo captioned "200 railway shopmen strikers at Childress, Tex. help sick farmers with crops," 4 x 6¼ inches, N.E.A. ink stamp dated 21 July 1922.