Sujet
Execution by electric chair, United States, 1898. Artist: Unknown
Légende
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
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images
Notre référence
HRM19B63_431
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,0Mo (922,8Ko) / 40,4cm x 31,0cm / 4776 x 3657 (300dpi)