Prison, Milledgeville -- Frank's cot (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Prison, Milledgeville -- Frank's cot
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.19723
Call Number: LC-B2- 3571-8
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underoak added this photo to her favorites. (4 weeks ago)
B-59 (4 weeks ago | reply)
.The name „Frank's cot“ at the state prison in Milledgeville refers to Leo Frank
(according to: Milledgeville (Images of America) by Amy E. Clark-Davis, Arcadia Publishing, 2011, page 53 f., see books.google.ch/books?id=501B-QhtMisC&pri ntsec=frontc...).
Frank was accused to have murdered a 13 year old child and sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment. He was arrested in Milledgeville before he was abducted and hanged by a lynch mob. Most likely he was innocent.
„Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was a Jewish-American factory superintendent whose hanging in 1915 by a lynch mob, planned and led by prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia, drew attention to antisemitism in the United States „
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank
artolog (3 weeks ago | reply)
Leo Frank:
Others involved in the Leo Frank case, from
the Bain Collection:
www.flickr.com/search/?ss=2&w=commons& q=%22leo+fr...
Lotus Carroll added this photo to her favorites. (3 weeks ago)