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  1. Thomas James Howard Jr. (September 11, 1894 – 8 October 1961) [2] was an American photographer who worked at the Washington bureau of P. & A. Photographs during the 1920s. His photograph of the execution of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison, on January 12, 1928, has been called "the most famous tabloid photo of the decade". [3]

  2. Jan 12, 2023 · Crouched down in the back was a photographer named Tom Howard. And inside his camera —snuck into Sing Sing in defiance of the prison’s ban on photographs in the execution chamber—was the one...

  3. May 23, 2018 · Updated August 30, 2022. Ruth Snyder's crime and execution were nothing special until a photo of her electric chair in action ended up on the front page of the daily news. Wikimedia Commons Ruth Snyder’s mugshot. Tensions were high as Tom Howard walked into New York’s Sing Sing prison on the afternoon of Jan. 12, 1928.

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  4. The New York Daily News knew that the prison was familiar with many journalists from their staff, so they hired someone from out of town, Tom Howard, a then-unknown local photographer from...

  5. Nov 18, 2020 · She was sentenced to death by electric chair. A month before Snyder’s execution, ‘editors in New York enlisted the help of Chicago Tribune photographer Thomas Howard to prepare for their news coverage’ (https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_875015, 2020)

  6. Apr 11, 2015 · It’s the first photo showing an execution by electric chair, and was captured by photographer Tom Howard at the execution of Ruth Snyder back on January 12, 1928. Snyder had been arrested,...

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  8. Oct 3, 2012 · The document was formed at Sing Sing, “when the current struck,” and Chicago Tribune photographer Tom Howard, hired by the New York Daily News for a stealth operation, “hoisted his pant leg and secretly snapped with a one-use camera one of the most indelible images the death chamber offered the twentieth century, to be splashed in a few hours’ t...

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