Lot 122
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(CRIME)
Album containing 40 postmortem photographs compiled by Dr. Edward E. Smith, the coroner for
Franklin County, Ohio.With gruesome scenes of murder victims: including a woman whose throat
has been slashed; bystanders looking at the body of an African-American male; arson (in which the
victim died in bed); the remains of men whose bodies were recovered, after two years, in an automobile
buried in the Scipto River; a castrated victim; variant images of an African-American baby, who was
strangled (and the woman’s long hair is still around his neck) and others of a well-dressed female in a
field; a couple shown in the basement of their home; a worker who was killed in the driver’s seat of
his car; and many more graphic and disturbing pictures. Silver prints, most are approximately 7x8
inches (17.8x20.3 cm.), 2 are 4
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inches (11.4x8.9 cm.), 3 with Smith’s facsimile signature hand
stamp on recto. Small folio, green cloth; ties. Circa 1940
[2,500/3,500]
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(UNWANTEDVERNACULAR)
Album entitled “Property of the Newport Police Dept.,Wanted and Unwanted Persons,” with the
hand stamp of E. E Chambers applied multiple times.With more than 60 photographs, comprising
58 war-time mug shots of seasoned male and female criminals throughout Oregon andWashington
states. The pictures were apparently compiled by Police Chief Gigliardi of Newport, Oregon and
are pasted onto pink-and-blue lined expense account sheets; includes newspaper clippings of
criminals who escaped and the date they were apprehended, photographs of footprints, and an
mugshot labeled “Escaped” on verso. Silver prints, 3x5 inches (7.6x12.7 cm.), many with detailed
information on verso. 4to, red cloth with typewritten label containing hand stamps and notations,
edgewear. 1930s-1942
[800/1,200]
From the Collection of John Binder.
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