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Title: Taken to a cemetary and hanged
Creator: Gonzales-Day, Ken
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 2004
Publication Information: Scripps College
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Ken Gonzales-Day Collection
Rights Information: All rights are retained by Ken Gonzales-Day. For permission to use this item, contact the artist.
Description: The black borders produced by the film holder are not included in the final print. Using archival records, Gonzales-Day went searching for California's historic hang trees. While some of the locations of the trees in this series are certain, others were taken in approximate locations that corresponded to the historical data available. For more information, see Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 (Duke, 2006).
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: Landscape_27_kgd00139.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/kgd/id/173
Language: English
Subject: Trees
Roads
Source: 18 x 24 inches; LightJet print; 2004
Relation: Erased Lynching; Lynching in the West
Ken Gonzales-Day - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/kgd

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