Photographic postcard depicting the tree where Scott Burton was lynched on August 14, 1908 during the Springfield, Illinois race riot, taken by an unidentified photographer
Description:
Captions in English.
Subject (Geographic):
Illinois., Illinois, Springfield., and Springfield (Ill.)
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.
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