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execution of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair

Photo of the execution of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison on January 12, 1928. It was made secretly by photographer Tom Howard with a miniature camera that he had strapped to his ankle. Snyder and her lover were both executed for the murder of Snyder's husband, Albert, in 1927. *Renewal searches were done in artwork and in periodicals for the years 1955 and 1956. There were no listings for Tom Howard or the New York Daily News in either category. There's no evidence of copyright continuing on the photo.

Date
1928-01-12
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
photograph
Original size
450 × 566 pixels

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Reason: its US copyright has expired (published before 1931).

Read from: Commons licence category: PD US expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page; permission field: Copyright not renewed.

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"execution of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair" (1928-01-12). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Execution_of_Ruth_Snyder.jpg

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