Winter 2006 Catalog > Photo Collection > Vintage Photos
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Lot 1635: 1904 Supreme Court Photo
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Beautiful photo of the 1904 Supreme Court justices. It is the first Supreme Court to ever stay an execution in a state criminal case. Convinced that a black man was being railroaded in a rape case in Chattanooga they intervened. This did not stop the people of Chattanooga who went and dragged him out of jail and hung him. Left to right are Justice Henry B. Brown, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., John M. Harlan, Rufus Peckham, Melville W. Fuller, Joseph McKenna, David J. Brewer, William R. Day and Edward D. White. Photo is 18-1/2 x 13" (Matted and framed, 28-1/4 x 22-3/4").
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