Title

Electric chair, 1898. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Electric chair, 1898. The Death Chair. In reality it is a simple, though exceedingly strongly made, ordinary chair, the electric apparatus being entirely separate. Photographic illustration from Death by Electrocution by James S Metcalfe, (1898).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1898

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B63_429

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (1,3Mb) / 11,1in x 17,5in / 3325 x 5252 (300dpi)

Keywords

arts country law electricity book death chair location century furniture literature concept electrocution B&W MONOCHROME horrible ac gruesome United States of America United States execution death sentence 19th century black & white black and white B W Electric chair nineteenth century American America USA Oxford Science Archive alternating current Death by Electrocution photograph horrid Unknown photograph