1. "New photo of Lizzie?"
Posted by harry on Jan-3rd-04 at 7:42 PM
Joyce Williams' sources for her book "Lizzie Borden: A Case Book of Family and Crime in the 1890's", page 270, lists the following entry:
"A Pictorial History of the World's Great Trials, from Socrates to Eichmann by Brandt Aymar and Edward Sagarin (1967) describes thirty-one trials. A twenty-page section devoted to the Borden trial is augmented by many pictures and drawings, including a seldom seen photograph of Lizzie, looking carefree and almost happy."
Has anyone read this book or seen the photo mentioned? Could it be the Newport photo?
I would love to see that book! I wonder if it is our Lizzie
on the chair? very interesting!
Harry I read that book eons ago, very good too I might add. If I remember correctly it is the Newport photo, I guess at the time it wasn't as widely published as today?
I own this book; mine is a second-hand copy I bought at a book sale. The Lizzie chapter is well-illustrated with a variety of photographs, diagrams of the house and yard, and newspaper-type sketches of people involved in the case. As Susan says the photo of Lizzie referred to by Joyce Williams is probably the Newport photo with Lizzie standing behind a chair. It is reproduced as a full page illustration in this book. Other interesting photos include a view of 92 Second St. from the south front angle, a photo of the Fall River police station where the inquest was held, a photo of the Taunton jail, and a photo of the lunch pail used by Lizzie while she was incarcerated. These four photos are all credited to the Fall River Historical Society.
Thanks Susan and Doug. I had a vague remembrance of it being the Newport photo but wasn't sure.
Some day though someone will turn up another one or two Lizzie photos. I'd love to rummage through some of those attics in Fall River.
(Message last edited Jan-4th-04 9:36 AM.)
I think some of Lizzie's friends later on in life must have have a couple of photos of her, or the whole gang together. Photography had become so much easier by then. But I have to wonder if the current owners would know who Lizzie was or care for that matter like we do? Can't you just see some relative of Lizzie's old friends with a photo of Lizzie looking on the back and seeing "Lizbeth" written there and going, "Who's Lizbeth? An aunt? Cousin? No one in the family remembers who she was."