File:Lynching of Laura Nelson and her son 3.jpg

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English: The lynching of Laura and Lawrence Nelson on 25 May 1911 in Okemah, Oklahoma.
Source Gelatin silver print. Real photo postcard. 5 1/2 x 3 1/2. Printed and distributed in 1911.
This version was taken from here, George Henry Farnum Collection, Oklahoma Historical Society Research Division.
Note that this is one of two versions of the image known to be available. This one is numbered 2899; the other version, File:Lynching of Laura Nelson and her son.JPG, is numbered 2897.
For a discussion of the lynching, see James Allen,Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America, Twin Palms Publishers, 2000, and James West Davidson, 'They say': Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. 6ff.
Author George H. Farnum, Okemah photographer.

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