“Lynching of Laura Nelson and her son 2” by George H. Farnum, Okemah photographer
“Lynching of Laura Nelson and her son 2” by George H. Farnum, Okemah photographer. See George Henry Farnum Collection, Oklahoma Historical Society Research Division. – Gelatin silver print. Real photo postcard. 5 1/2 x 3 1/2. Printed and distributed in 1911. This version was taken from here. Also found in Kaufman 2011, p. 147, attributed to the Research Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society. For a discussion of the lynching, see James Allen,Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America, Twin Palms Publishers, 2000, and James West Davidson, ‘They say’: Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. 6ff.. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons –