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Accession Number:1998-526-2
Accession Date:
Condition:fair
Location:archives,photo coll.,disasters,box 3,folder 7
Keywords:Greene County jail, African American, Lynching, Robberson Ave.
Area of Origin:Springfield, Mo.
Period:1906
Category:Documentary Artifact
Object:Print, photographic
Maker:UK
Description/History:Black and white Photograph of a crowd gathered at the Greene County jail on Easter Sunday morning, April, 1906 following the lynching 3 black men. A mob had broken into the jail to take the men to the Public Square to kill them. Two broken windows show on the side of the building. Greene County jail 925 Robberson Avenue.
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