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[Stage coach robbery]: The tables turned – Vintage Print

[Stage coach robbery]: The tables turned, c1911 July 24. — historic photograph
[Stage coach robbery]: The tables turned, c1911 July 24.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Stage coach robbery]: The tables turned, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Stage coach robbery]: The tables turned

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Here the usual order of a stagecoach holdup is reversed, as the title "The tables turned" suggests, and the caption card's tags for crime and executions point to a scene that ends with the would-be robbers facing the law. The card was copyrighted by Ed. Tangen of Boulder, Colorado, and dated about 1911. By then stagecoach robberies were a fading memory of the frontier, so staged scenes like this one were made for the stereoscope and sold as Western entertainment. The record is unverified, so the details come from the caption card rather than a documented event.

Created / publishedc1911 July 24.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesJ157954 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by Ed. Tangen, Boulder, Colorado. No. 1976. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Crime; Stage coaches; Executions.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,367 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140636

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