Lynching of Arthur L. Compton & Joseph Wilson at Hangman’s Tree, Helena, MT, 1870

Lynching of Arthur L. Compton & Joseph Wilson at Hangman’s Tree, Helena, MT, 1870

Photograph

Ken Gonzales-Day

Maker
American, b. 1964

Lynching of Arthur L. Compton & Joseph Wilson at Hangman’s Tree, Helena, MT, 1870

From Erased Lynchings III


2019
Inkjet print, printed 2022
2/6
Image: 6 3/16 × 3 7/8 in. (15.7 × 9.9 cm)
Mount: 6 1/2 × 4 1/8 in. (16.5 × 10.5 cm)
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2022
2022.0058.0003
Inscriptions printed in image recto, TLC: A2453
printed in image recto, TR: Hangman's Tree, Helena, Mont.
signed and dated in pencil on mount verso, BR: Ken Gonzales-Day 2022

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