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China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband, being attached to the execution post. Photograph, 19--.
- Date
- [between 1900 and 1999]
- Reference
- 663451i
- Part of
- China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband
- Pictures
About this work
Description
"Strangulation. The "slow strangulation" of a Chinese woman. She took fifteen minutes to die from the time strangulation commenced"--label attached to a copy of the final photograph in the series of six
Publication/Creation
[China.] : [publisher not identified], [between 1900 and 1999]
Physical description
1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 9.5 x 6 cm
Lettering
Strangulation of a Chinese woman
Lettering note
Lettering on typed slip stuck to verso of print catalogued
Bears number: 2
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 663451i
Type/Technique
Languages
- English
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores