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Summary

Tom Howard: execution of Ruth Snyder  wikidata:Q61764013 reasonator:Q61764013
Photographer
Tom Howard  (1894–1961)  wikidata:Q7816240
 
Description American photographer, photojournalist and journalist
Date of birth/death 11 September 1894 Edit this at Wikidata 8 October 1961 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Chicago
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creator QS:P170,Q7816240
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
execution of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair
Object type photograph Edit this at Wikidata
Original caption
Photo was taken by Tom Howard for the New York Daily News, who published it the next day on their front page.
Description
English: Photo of the execution of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison on January 12, 1928. It was made secretly by photographer Tom Howard with a miniature camera that he had strapped to his ankle. Snyder and her lover were both executed for the murder of Snyder's husband, Albert, in 1927.
  • Renewal searches were done in artwork and in periodicals for the years 1955 and 1956. There were no listings for Tom Howard or the New York Daily News in either category. There's no evidence of copyright continuing on the photo.
Depicted people Ruth Snyder Edit this at Wikidata
Date 12 January 1928
date QS:P571,+1928-01-12T00:00:00Z/11
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Permission
(Reusing this file)		 Copyright not renewed

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This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart and the copyright renewal logs. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.

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2010-07-07 19:13 450×566× (127683 bytes) RaseaC {{Information |Description = The execution of Ruth Snyder (12 January 1928) |Source = |Date = ~~~~~ |Author = Tom Howard |Permission = |other_versions = }}

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