Paying the death penalty for crime - garroting a criminal at Bilibid Prison, Manila, P.I. – Vintage Print
(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 Paying the death penalty for crime - garroting a criminal at Bilibid Prison, Manila, P.I. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Paying the death penalty for crime - garroting a criminal at Bilibid Prison, Manila, P.I.
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A condemned man faces the garrote in this stereograph from Bilibid Prison in Manila, captioned "Paying the death penalty for crime." The garrote was a Spanish method of execution in which a metal collar was tightened around the neck, and it stayed in use in the Philippines after the United States took control in 1898. Underwood & Underwood, a New York firm, sold stereo cards like this one to American viewers curious about their new overseas territories. The catalog date of about 1901 is unverified, so the card is best read as a record of how the scene was presented to the public as much as a documentary account of the event.
| Created / published | c1901. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Criminals and crime--1901; Executions--Garrote; Photog. I.; Philippine I.--Manila; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,423 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140961 |
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