'Strapping the Victim into the Death Chair', United States, 1898.

'Strapping the Victim into the Death Chair', United States, 1898. The operation takes only a couple of seconds to perform, each keeper being thoroughly trained to draw, adjust and buckle his own particular strap. Photographic illustration from Death by Electrocution by James S Metcalfe, (1898). (Photo by Oxford Science Archive/Print Collector/Getty Images)
'Strapping the Victim into the Death Chair', United States, 1898. The operation takes only a couple of seconds to perform, each keeper being thoroughly trained to draw, adjust and buckle his own particular strap. Photographic illustration from Death by Electrocution by James S Metcalfe, (1898). (Photo by Oxford Science Archive/Print Collector/Getty Images)
'Strapping the Victim into the Death Chair', United States, 1898.
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Print Collector / Contributor
Editorial #:
463912893
Collection:
Hulton Archive
Date created:
January 01, 1898
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Source:
Hulton Archive
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460001904
Object name:
1156118
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