Ct. House - Hillsville – Antique Wall Art
(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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Hillsville, Virginia, is the seat of Carroll County, and this view shows its courthouse, the building at the center of a violent event in March 1912. During a trial that day, members of the Allen family, who were defendants, opened fire inside the courthouse, killing the presiding judge, the prosecutor, and others. The record gives no date for this negative, so it may or may not come from that year. Bain News Service, the New York agency that made it, sent pictures like this one to newspapers, which is why many of its views of courthouses and small towns became familiar news images.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,747 × 4,184 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11484 |
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