File:John Meintz, punished during World War I - NARA - 283633 - restored.jpg

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U.S. District Court for the Second (Mankato) Division of the District of Minnesota. (04/26/1890 - ca. 1951)

Title

John Meintz, punished during World War I

Description

English: On August 19, 1918, amidst anti-German sentiment during World War I, German-American farmer John Meints (misspelled Meintz) was taken from his home in Luverne, Minnesota and driven to the border with South-Dakota. There, masked locals whipped him, threatened to shoot him, and tarred-and-feathered him, forcing him to cross the border and threatening to hang him if he returned. Meints named 32 of the men involved in a lawsuit, but they were acquitted, with the judge instructing the jury that the evidence strongly supported his disloyalty. Meints later won an appeal and settled out of court in 1922. [1]

Scope and content: Meintz was tarred and feathered for not supporting war bond drives. Front and rear views, showing feathers stuck on his body.

Date

between circa 1917 and circa 1918

Current location

National Archives and Records Administration

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	Location	Washington, D.C. (headquarters), and many regional facilities and presidential libraries nationwide in the USA
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	Authority control	: Q518155 VIAF: 168811441 ISNI: 0000 0001 2160 3036 LCCN: n84176101 NLA: 35718998 GND: 605336-1 WorldCat

NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City) (NREA), 400 West Pershing Road, Kansas City, MO, 64108.

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This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 283633.

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Record group: Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2004 (National Archives Identifier: 350 )
Series: District of Minnesota: Mankato: Law Cases, compiled 1898 - 1938 (National Archives Identifier: 283631 )
File unit: John Meints v. O.R. Huntington, et. al, 1917 - 1918 (National Archives Identifier: 283632 )
NAIL Control Number: NRE-21-MINNMANLAW-LAW121-MAN13

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	20:35, 28 December 2016	2,308 × 2,958 (1.17 MB)	Opencooper	per Com:Overwrite, please upload major edits as a separate file, especially for featured pictures. This kind of high contrast was criticized at the FP review and your changes clipped a lot of shadow detail
	13:43, 28 December 2016	2,308 × 2,958 (1.29 MB)	Unibond	restored contrast
	20:15, 13 October 2016	2,308 × 2,958 (1.17 MB)	Opencooper	very minimally level so not crazily contrasted like before
	14:39, 12 October 2016	2,308 × 2,958 (1.34 MB)	Opencooper	curves
	14:37, 12 October 2016	2,308 × 2,958 (1.11 MB)	Opencooper	== {{int:filedesc}} == {{NARA-image-full \| Title = John Meintz, punished during World War I \| Scope and content = Meintz was tarred and feathered for not supporting war bond drives. Front and rear views, showing feathers stuck...

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