![]() ![]() As sobering as the butchered bodies in the photographs are, even more distressing is the way in which many of these lifeless bodies appear posed or costumed. ![]() These images are filled with the brutalized, often mutilated bodies of young men and women, mostly African Americans, who were beaten, shot, and hung by angry white mobs. Readers are certain to be shocked and horrified by the photographs of lynching victims and spectators in Without Sanctuary. 203), collected these images over many years, searching flea markets, garage sales, and the collections of professional traders. Many of these photographs were originally picture postcards or trade cards that were circulated within and among communities as memorabilia of lynching events. James Allen has assembled a sobering collection of photographs of lynchings that took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, primarily in the southern United States. Sponsored by the New-York Historical Society and the Community Service Society of New York. An exhibition of the Allen-Littlefield Collection at the New-York Historical Society, 2 West 77th Street, New York, N.Y., March 14, 2000-October 1, 2000. Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America. ![]()
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