Object Details
- Description
- Black and white photograph of the lynching of Allen Brooks in Dallas, Texas on March 3, 1910. The image is taken from an elevated perspective. A large crowd of people are visible in the foreground and the hanged body of Brooks is visible just above the crowd in the background. On the back of the photograph is a stamp from the Dallas Public Library.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Allen Brooks, American, ca. 1845 - 1910
- Date
- March 3, 1910; printed later
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Jacquelyn Days Serwer
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
