‘Lynched by a Mob of about 300,’ William Null, Garland Stemler, Louis Moreno, Laurence H. Johnson, Yreka, CA, 1895

‘Lynched by a Mob of about 300,’ William Null, Garland Stemler, Louis Moreno, Laurence H. Johnson, Yreka, CA, 1895

Photograph

Ken Gonzales-Day

Maker
American, b. 1964

‘Lynched by a Mob of about 300,’ William Null, Garland Stemler, Louis Moreno, Laurence H. Johnson, Yreka, CA, 1895

From Erased Lynchings III


2019
Inkjet print, printed 2022
2/6
Image: 5 9/16 × 8 1/8 in. (14.2 × 20.7 cm)
Mount: 5 7/8 × 8 7/16 in. (15 × 21.4 cm)
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2022
2022.0058.0004
Inscriptions printed in image recto, OA: Lynched by a mob of about 300 people in front of \ Court house in Yreka, Siskiyou Co., Col. \ Hung between hi (?) hours (?) \ of 12-1 o'clock on a Sunday \ night. \ A railroad rail [underlined] was strung across from one tree to \ the other to hang them on.
signed in pencil on mount verso, BR: Ken Gonzales-Day \ 2022

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