Hughes, Mary M.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Four lynched men
Digital Image
Identifier: 2006-012-ada-1-1.jpg
Dates:
1909-04-19; Digitized: 2018-08-13
The hanging of Jim Miller and four others, 1909-04-19
Item
Identifier: 2006.012.1
Scope and Contents
Image featuring four men, hung by the neck from the rafters in a barn, by a lynch mob. Hand-printed caption reads: Jim Miller and Pals hunge ba mob [sic]. Ada Ok. 1909." On verso: Arrows note the names of each man hung (West, Duvall, Allen and Miller).A photographic copy produced by M. M. Ward Studio and Mary M. Hughes of four men hanged in a stable in Ada, Oklahoma, April 19, 1909. From the veiwer's left to right, Jim Miller, Joe Allen, B. B. Burrell, and Jesse West. These...
Dates:
1909-04-19
Additional filters:
- Type
- Archival Object 1
- Digital Record 1
- Subject
- Ada (Okla.) 1
- Lynching. 1