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Effects of Great Riot at Cincinnati Photographs

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Title	Effects of Great Riot at Cincinnati Photographs
Subject	Ohio Government Architecture Debris Riots Courthouses
Place	Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description	This collection of photographs, titled Effects of Great Riot at Cincinnati, was published by Rombach & Groene Photographers in 1884, soon after the Great Riot of 1884. Ten thousand people converged on the Hamilton County courthouse in 1884 and burned it to the ground to protest the conviction of William Berner, a white man who was found guilty of manslaughter for killing his employer. The photographs show scenes of barricaded streets, and exterior and interior views of the damaged courthouse. The collection includes fifteen photographs, measuring 7" x 10" (17.78 x 25.4 cm) each. Many Cincinnatians felt the verdict in Berner's case should have been murder. In a similar case, a mixed-race man was convicted of murder and hanged for the same crime. Several prominent citizen who were tired of the city's corrupt judicial system called a meeting at the Music Hall on March 28 to protest the jury's decision. This meeting turned into a riot in which more than fifty people were killed, about two hundred were injured, and the Hamilton County courthouse was destroyed. The National Guard was called in to restore order.
Creator	Rombach & Groene photographers
Date of Original	1884
Source	Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution	Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om2117_2831741_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2117_2831741_001.tif
Image Height	2782
Image Width	3965
File Size	2924.376 KB

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