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[Stocks and pillory outside the restored public gaol, Williamsburg, Virginia] – Historic Print

[Stocks and pillory outside the restored public gaol, Williamsburg, Virginia], [ca. 1937] — historic photograph
[Stocks and pillory outside the restored public gaol, Williamsburg, Virginia], [ca. 1937]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Stocks and pillory outside the restored public gaol, Williamsburg, Virginia] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The stocks and pillory stand outside the restored public gaol in Williamsburg, Virginia, which served as the colonial capital until 1780. In the 1920s and 1930s the town was being rebuilt to its eighteenth-century appearance, a project funded largely by John D. Rockefeller Jr. This photograph from the Wittemann Collection, taken around 1937, shows how the reconstructed town looked to visitors during that work. Devices like these were meant to shame offenders in public as well as restrain them, and the open setting makes that purpose easy to picture.

Created / published[ca. 1937]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1930-1960.
NotesWittemann Collection.
SubjectsStocks (Punishment)--Virginia--Williamsburg--1930-1960. Pillories--Virginia--Williamsburg--1930-1960.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,165 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-168843

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