Judge webster thayer biography books

  • "Judge ster Thayer" is one of the series of gouaches, which serve almost as "snapshots" in a kind of album of the narrative.
  • Born in , ster Thayer was an graduate of Dartmouth College and a former newspaper man.
  • The presiding judge, ster Thayer made numerous public statements condemning Bolshevism and anarchism as grave dangers to America's institutions.

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    Nicola Sacco

     “But what good is the evidence and what good is the argument?  They are determined to kill us regardless of evidence, of law, of decency, of everything.  If they give us a delay tonight, it will only mean they will kill us next week.  Let us finish tonight.  I’m weary of waiting seven years to die, when they know all the time they intend to kill us.”
     --Sacco, August 22, , fifteen hours before he and Vanzetti were executed.

     Sacco was born Ferdinando “Nando” Sacco in Torremaggiore, Italy in to a fairly successful olive oil dealer.  Some accounts say he either had no formal educationor dropped out at age nine; at trial he claimed he spent seven years in school and dropped out at age He was an inquisitive boy with a love of machinery.

     Sacco emigrated to the United States in at the age of sixteen with his older brother Sabino, and the two settled in Milford, Massachusetts.  He soon found a job working for the

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    Wolfsonian-FIU Library

    Sacco and Vanzetti Executed on This Day in History: A Wolfsonian Reflection

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    Judge Webster Thayer

    Harvard Art Museums

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    Identification and Creation

    Object Number
    People
    Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania - New York, NY)
    Title
    Judge Webster Thayer
    Classification
    Drawings
    Work Type
    drawing
    Date
    Culture
    American
    Persistent Link

    Physical Descriptions

    Medium
    Gouache on beige laid paper, mounted on masonite
    Dimensions
    x cm (12 3/8 x 9 5/16 in.)
    frame: x x cm (19 x 16 x 3/4 in.)

    Provenance

    Recorded Ownership History
    Ben Shahn; to Philip Wittenberg; to his son, Jonathan Wittenberg; gift; to Harvard Art Museum,

    Acquisition and Rights

    Credit Line
    Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Beatrice A. and Jonathan B. Wittenberg
    Copyright
    © Estate of Ben Shahn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
    Accession Year
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    Division
    Modern and Contemporary Art
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