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Executions at Canton

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Date: April 17, 1891
Medium: Albumen silver print
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

View of the aftermath of the execution of the S.S. Namoa pirates, showing their decapitated heads and bodies on the shores of a harbor. Eight Caucasian men stand near them, while a Chinese man also stands near by and observing.

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