Title

'Strapping the Victim into the Death Chair', United States, 1898. Artist: Unknown

Caption

'Strapping the Victim into the Death Chair', United States, 1898. The operation takes only a couple of seconds to perform, each keeper being thoroughly trained to draw, adjust and buckle his own particular strap. Photographic illustration from Death by Electrocution by James S Metcalfe, (1898).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1898

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B63_430

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

49,9Mb (989,2Kb) / 15,6in x 12,4in / 4684 x 3727 (300dpi)

Keywords

people black male interior indoors man men country law white electricity guy crime color colour KILLER death cruelty prison location century inside prisoner criminal concept STRAP punishment electrocution B&W tied restrained MONOCHROME murderer horrible ac gruesome Warden penitentiary 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 electrocuted prison officer photograph horrid Unknown James S Metcalfe Metcalfe James S James S Metcalfe photograph