Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2001.839.0002Description
B&W of a bar, two bar stools and a man laying on a bar step, face down in a pool of blood, May 9, 1957, Rawlins.
Update 2009: Black and white print. Contact print. Image of the serving bar, back bar, and stools inside a saloon. In the center foreground is the body of a man lying face down in a pool of blood, head resting on the bar foot rest. Man has been shot through the head. He was wearing a jean jacket. there is a barstool on each side, light one on right, dark on left.
Written on back in blue ink: "H.F. May 9, 57 UWF May 9, 57" "Three stools between body and south end of bar".
Written on back in pencil: #2.
Back badly soiled and stained . Emulsion cracked, scratched and irregular.
One negative (2 3/16 x 3 3/16) Shows more of scene at right than print. One contract print (2 1/2 x 3 9/16) written on back in pencil: #2. Shows full scene from negative. Emulsion irregular. Back soiled and stained.
Note with photos: "Negative taken at Club Bar-Rawlins, Wyo May 9 approx. 5 10/pm -1 set 8x 10, 1 set 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 given to Chief May 11-57 T.W. Fuss "9" (Orig. note in archives.Collection
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