Title

Execution by electric chair, United States, 1898. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Execution by electric chair, United States, 1898. The warden holds a handkerchief in his left hand. The doctor holds his watch. The electrician stands facing the cupboard. He has on his finger a brass ring, fastened to the end of a wire, which communicates with the man standing in the box behind the electric chair, whose right hand is on the lever which permits the current to pass. Photographic illustration from Death by Electrocution by James S Metcalfe, (1898).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1898

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B63_431

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (922,8Kb) / 15,9in x 12,2in / 4776 x 3657 (300dpi)

Keywords

people black male interior indoors job man men medicine country audience science law white electricity guy crime occupation spectator color colour KILLER death cruelty prison location century doctor profession handkerchief inside prisoner criminal witness concept STRAP punishment electrocution B&W tied physician 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