1880 French Woodchopper (1)

Name/Title

1880 French Woodchopper (1)

Entry/Object ID

HC000a

Description

Testimony to the ruggedness and loneliness of life in the 1880s near the little lumber town of Wrights is graphically caputured in the suicide of a French woodsman who fashioned a home-made guillotine to end his own life. The identity of the man is unknown, as is the identity of the photographer. HC000a

Collection

Hamsher Clarence Collection

Made/Created

Artist

Unknown

Date made

circa 1880

Dimensions

Height

16.01 cm

Width

11.49 cm

Location

* Untyped Location

Clarence Hamsher Collection

Copyright

Notes

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