- Artist/Maker:
- Marion Palfi
- Bio:
- American, b. Germany, 1907-1978
- Title:
- Wife of the Lynch Victim
- Portfolio/Series:
- There Is No More Time
- Date:
- 1949, printed later
- Medium:
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions:
- 13 5/16 × 10 7/16 in. (33.8 × 26.5 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: William and Jane Schloss Family Foundation Fund
- Accession Number:
- 2008-102
- Copyright:
- Photograph by Marion Palfi. © 1998 Arizona Board of Regents.
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The first reported lynching of 1949 occurred in Irwinton, Georgia, when Caleb Hill, Jr. was taken from his jail cell and murdered by two local men. Both were acquitted of all charges after a one-day trial. Palfi traveled to the town to take pictures of the racially divided community, from Ku Klux Klan members to the victim’s wife, seen here. Her project culminated in the book There Is No More Time, which remains unpublished.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.