Sacco and Vanzetti photo gallery

Contemporary photographs of and images related to Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927), two anarchist Italian immigrants framed for murder and eventually executed for their political beliefs.

Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco.
Nicola Sacco.
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
A prison guard sits with (left to right) Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco.
Two mug shots of Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Sacco and Vanzetti photo gallery
Sacco and Vanzetti photo gallery
Sacco and Vanzetti photo gallery
Sacco and Vanzetti photo gallery
Sacco and Vanzetti photo gallery
Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco.
Boston Daily Advertiser, August 23, 1927.
Armband seen at Sacco's and Vanzetti's funeral procession in Boston, August 28, 1927.
Rosa Sacco (wife) and Luigia Vanzetti (sister) after their last visit with Sacco and Vanzetti at the Charlestown prison on August 22, 1927.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco.
Sacco's death certificate. Because Sacco had been on a hunger strike his body had lost salt and water, elements that conduct electricity. To compensate, he received a higher voltage than Vanzetti, as indicated on the certificate.
Vanzetti's death certificate.
Funeral procession for Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, August 28, 1927, viewed from Tremont Street in Boston.
Funeral procession for Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, August 28, 1927.
Funeral procession for Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, August 28, 1927.
Funeral procession for Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, August 28, 1927.
In protest at the pair's execution, approximately 200,000 supporters march in Paris, 1927.
Sacco's and Vanzetti's guns.
Frederick Parmenter, the paymaster who was murdered at the Slater-Morrill Shoe Company, on Pearl Street in Braintree, Massachusetts during the afternoon of April 15, 1920 and the man whom Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of killing.
Nicola Sacco just after a death mask was made of him by a New York sculptor as he reposed in his casket.
Nicola Sacco with his wife and son Dante. This is the photo that Nicola Sacco says he gave to the Italian Consul in Boston the afternoon of the Braintree murder 7 years ago. The Consul verified his story by applying for a passport to Italy at the time.
The jury and three sheriffs.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco, with his wife Rosina Sacco, waiting in the prisoners' dock.
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti as they left the courthouse accompanied by a mounted force.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco leave jail at Dedham, Mass., en route to the courthouse where they were sentenced by Judge Webster Thayer to die in the electric chair.
Dedham, Massachusetts: Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco arriving at Superior court where they were sentenced to death in electric chair 4/19/27 for murder of which they were convicted in 1921.
Dedham, Massachusetts: Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco arriving at Superior court where they were sentenced to death in electric chair 4/19/27 for murder of which they were convicted in 1921.
Dedham, Massachusetts: Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco leave jail at Dedham, Mass., en route to the courthouse where they were sentenced by Judge Webster Thayer to die in the electric chair.
A section of the immense crowd signifying with upraised hands their approval of the resolutions against the death sentence of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Solidarity protest.
Solidarity protest.
Nico Sacco's and Bartolomeo Vanzetti's death masks.
A mug shot of Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Judge Webster Thayer.
The front page of the New York Times on the 23 August, 1927.
Defense Attorney Fred H. Moore.
District Attorney Frederick G. Katzmann.
Courtroom Sketches.
Massachusetts Governor Alvan T. Fuller.

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wojtek
Feb 23 2012 23:05

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sabot
Feb 23 2012 05:30

Nice work with all of the Sacco and Vanzetti entries.

Steven.
Feb 27 2012 17:53

Yeah, great stuff, thanks!

Steven.
Feb 27 2012 17:58

PS there was one broken image because of the bug around filenames with spaces or special characters in, which I fixed

Entdinglichung
Jan 24 2014 10:07

a poster from Berlin, May 1927

a call for a joint rally of FAUD, KAPD, KPD, the remains of the USPD and other orgs, also attacking the SPD and the "Amsterdam International of Trade Unions"