File:Large crowd looking at the burned body of Jesse Washington, 18 year-old African American, lynched in Waco, Texas, May 15, 1916 LCCN95517168.tif

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English: Title: Large crowd looking at the burned body of Jesse Washington, 18 year-old African American, lynched in Waco, Texas, May 15, 1916
  • Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
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Author Gildersleeve, Fred A., 1881?-1958, photographer
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Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress
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  • Title devised by Library staff.
  • Photograph by Gildersleeve, Waco, Texas.
  • Collection finding aid available.
  • Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records.
  • Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.
Part of
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lot 13093 · prints and photographs division
Subject
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washington, jesse · death & burial · texas · waco · african americans · punishment & torture · lynchings · hate crimes · dead persons · gelatin silver prints
Location
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texas
Place
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Texas--Waco

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