#ruth snyder

[disease]

RUTH SNYDER ELECTROCUTION DAILY NEWS – JANUARY 14, 1928

Candid photo by Tom Howard via a hidden ankle camera.

#ruth snyder #tom howard #memento mori #macabre #vintage #daily news #monochrome #20s #u

[funeral]

Tom Howard, Execution of Ruth Snyder, clandestine photograph made at Sing Sing Prison, January 12, 1928. Published in the New York Daily News the following day.

#ruth snyder #electric chair #newspaper #1920s

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The Ruth Snyder/Judd Gray trial in April and May of 1927 was one of the biggest sensations of the time. They were tried for, and eventually convicted of, murdering Snyder's husband for the insurance money. Journalists fought for entrance to the courtroom in the Queens County Courthouse in Long Island City. One, Sophie Treadwell, used the story as the basis of her hit play, Machinal,* which played on Broadway the following year, with Zita Johann in the Snyder-inspired role and a young actor making his Broadway debut, Clark Gable, in the Gray role.

*Note: If you click on the link above, which discusses the trial and the play in more detail, be prepared for a shocking photo of Snyder in the electric chair. It ran on the front page of the Daily News on January 12, 1928.

Photo: NY Times Photo Archives

#vintage New York #1920s #Ruth Snyder #Judd Gray #Machinal #Sophie Treadwell #murder #murder trial #press sensation #old New York #press photographers

[midnights-wish]

"The photographer had a camera strapped around one leg, attached to a cable that ran up his trouser leg and into a pocket. He could squeeze a bulb in his pocket to take one picture which would be unnoticed in the glare of sparks and the horror generated by the chair."

Deborah Blum, 'The Poisoner's Handbook' - how a photographer secretly took a picture of Ruth Snyder's execution.

#booklr #book blog #deborah blum #the poisoners handbook #photographer #ruth snyder #execution #new york daily news #book quotes #quotes

[pilgrim1975]

Alphonse Brengard. Justice delayed, but not denied.

When New York cop-killer Alphonse Brengard walked his last mile at Sing Sing on September 6, 1934 it may have been with a firm sense of time and his crimes having finally caught up with him. Brengard died for a murder effectively committed years before, but he was not to wait in Sing Sing’s infamous ‘Death House’ for very long. After evading the law for several years after the shooting, Brengard…

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#Alphonse Brengard #Anna Antonio #appeal #capital punishment #clemency #death penalty #Eva Coo #Governor Herbert Lehman #Iron Mike Malloy #Judd Gray #Leonard Scarnici #Mad Dog Coll #Nassau County #New Jersey #New Jersey State Prison #New York #Patrolman John Kennedy #Robert Greene Elliott #Ruth Snyder #Sing Sing #State Electrician #Trenton #true crime

[outofeverythingthisnamewasleft]

#ruth brown snyder #sing sing prison #electric chair #1928

[the1920sinpictures]

1927 Newspaper cameramen wait outside of Queen's Courthouse during the Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray's murder trial, New York. From New York City Images: 1850-1980, FB.

[maaarine]

‘Catastrophic levels of hunger’ in Gaza mean famine is imminent, says aid coalition (Ruth Michaelson, The Guardian, March 18 2024)

Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 15. Ukrainization, Famine, Terror: 1920s - 1930s

#israel palestine #timothy synder

[imaginechb]

Grover Underwood Playlist

"Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair flattened and you could just see the tips of his horns. His bright orange backpack was full of scrap metal and apples to snack on. In his pocket was a set of reed pipes his daddy goat had carved for him, even though he only knew two songs: Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 12 and Hilary Duff's "So Yesterday," both of which sounded pretty bad on reed pipes." –The Lightning Thief

1. The Campfire Song— The Lightning Thief Company

2. Boys Will Be Bugs— Cavetown

3. Break My Stride— Matthew Wilder

4. Cupid's Chokehold— Gym Class Heroes

5. September— Earth, Wind & Fire

6. Count on Me— Bruno Mars

7. 100 Bad Days— AJR

8. The Cult of Dionysus— The Orion Experience

9. Legend Lake— Miggie Snyder

10. The Tree on the Hill— George Salazar

11. In the Same Boat— Rob Rokicki, Chris McCarrell, Kristin Stokes, Jorrel Javier

12. Flowers In Your Hair— The Lumineers

13. Hug All Ur Friends— Cavetown

14. Little Lion Man— Mumford & Sons

15. Natural— Imagine Dragons

16. Strawberry Fields Forever— The Beatles

17. I Lived— OneRepublic

18. We're Going to Be Friends— The White Stripes

19. I See Fire— Ed Sheeran

20. Home— Edith Whiskers

21. Where'd All the Time Go?— Dr. Dog

22. Lost Boy— Ruth B.

23. Team— Lorde

24. Because of You— Kelly Clarkson

25. So Yesterday— Hilary Duff

26. Willow Tree March— The Paper Kites

27. Soldier, Poet, King— Jacob Cook

28. Kaleidoscope— A Great Big World

29. Beautiful Soul— Jesse McCartney

30. Complicated— Avril Lavigne

#toa #trials of apollo #hoo #heroes of olympus #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson #pjo hoo toa #chb #camp jupiter #grover pjo #grover underwood #grover underwood x reader #grover underwood headcanon #pjo headcanon

[thevindicativevordan]

The Superman Legacy S-Logo has been revealed ! What are your thoughts ?

AHHHHH IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING!

Over a decade since our last Superman movie and filming for a new one has begun at last. I love the Kingdom Come s-shield, it's the one shield that feels feasible as both an alien crest, and an "S" for Superman. Would not have turned my nose up at Fleschier either, but I am stoked to see the full suit reveal eventually. Never had a problem with Cavill's suit, I'm pleased that this is fairly reminiscent of that style, only less overdesigned. Without the ugly filters that Snyder loves, we also will get a suit that has some color to it. The yellow outline around the edge should help make it pop, and I've seen some speculate that the crest has been sewed on by Ma. Could be (although if you see a pic of Corenswet walking around with a trunks suit, know that is fake).

Otherwise, all the snow surrounding the logo? C'mon that has gotta mean the Fortress! Damn I am stoked to see what the director of the Guardians trilogy does with the Fortress, I don't think he'll give us an empty igloo like the Donner films or boring gray hallways like the Snyder films. Last bit of info is Gunn has changed the title and dropped "Legacy" to leave it simply as Superman (2025). Man has got confidence to title it something like that, it's Babe Ruth calling his shot, although I suspect if he had been able to fold Battison into the DCU that it would have been titled The Superman instead. How am I feeling? Excited, terrified, apprehensive, ecstatic, it's all rushing over me like yellow sunlight. The future of DC films is in Gunn's hands now, all we can do is hope.

#superman #superman legacy #james gunn #david corenswet

[super-powerful-queen-reyna]

Here's my list of forgotten/cool women from history. Please take it, reblog it with more, spread it, learn about them, make books about them:

Lucy (slave used for experimentations on the uterus)

Nightwitches from WW2

Grace Hopper

Mary Anning

Maria Mitchell

Ada Lovelace

Kate Warne

Agnes Barre

Flora Tristan

Olympe de Gouges

Eleanor Roosevelt

Bessie Smith

Sylvia Plath

Sweet Tee

Lady D (the rapper)

The Sequence

Lady B

Rachel Carson

Baya

Tahireh

Lalla Fatma N'Soumer

Rosalind Franklin

Miriam Makeba

Alexandra David Néel

Suzanne Noël

Helena Rubinstein

Katherine Switzer

Jeanne Barret

Sophie Germain

Katherine Johnson

Margaret Hamilton

Hedy Lamarr

Betty Snyder Holberton

Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli

Marilyn Wescoff Meltzer

Frances Bilas Spence

Ruth Lichteman Teitelbaum og Jean Jennings Bartik

Valerie Thomas

Karen Sparck Jones

Dr Shirley Ann Jackson

Radia Perlman

Stacy Horn

Dr Betty Harris

Beulah Louise Henry

Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler

Empress Zenobia of the Palmyrene Empire

Surya Bonaly

Dolly Parton

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Shelley

Queen Nzinga of Ndongo Kingdom

Queen Yaa Asantewa Ashanti

Empress Candace of Ethiopia

Queen Sarraounia Mangou of Aznas Kingdom

Dona Beatriz

Mileva Marić

Matoaka

Janet Sobel

Claudette Colvin

Marsha P. Johnson

Marian Anderson

Madam CJ Walker

Frida Kahlo

Mirka Mora

Dahomey Amazons

The 40 Elephants

Diamond Alice

Maggie Bailey

Julie d'Aubigny

Bessie Coleman

Policarpa Salavarrieta

Annie Oakley

Anna Julia Cooper

Sojourner Truth

Ida B. Wells

Shirley Chisholm

Mary Church Terrell

Audre Lorde

Harriet Tubman

Maria W. Stewart

Angela Davis

Florynce Kennedy

Jocelyn Bell

Alice Ball

Lise Meitner

Chien Shiung Wu

Marie Tharp

Elizabeth Blackwell

Amanirenas

Wu Zetian

#womenempowerment #ada lovelace #j maya #taylor swift #cool women #awesome #genius #amazing #you need it

[rebelwithoutabroom]

Thoughts on the Barbie movie

There's this quote I saw a while ago on tumblr that went smth like... Father and daughter look down on mother together, they share looks when she says something dull and both agree that she isn't as bright as them, she can't be reasoned with - but that doesn't save the girl from having the mother's fate. In the new barbie movie, the little girl says men hate women and women also hate women. There's also the moment when Ruth says that mothers stay behind so their daughters could look back and see how far they've come. And it's just - God, the system really is rigged when the person who is supposed to be your best (your first!!) ally growing up is forced into this place where she's the strict one, the enforcer, the distorted image of what you don't want for your future.

I'm so guilty of all of this. My mother didn't laugh at the zack snyder jokes or the mansplaining, but she did get the speech of the mom in Berbieland, even if the word feminism had never been spoken out loud between us. For so many years, I had built this idea that my mother simply didn't know about any of that - because how could she? If she knew, why did I still grow up like I did? - and it's just so goddamn easier to blame and reject a mother than take a step back and see her as a woman also bowing under the forces acting up on all of us.

#if i told u guys i cried the 2nd time i went to watch this movie with my mom can you keep it a secret #it was so cathartic and so painfully cringe at the same time ill never recover #im really glad abt the relationship we have today but its a constant effort to see her as a woman 1st instead of a mother #this has been quite the ramble #i googled the og quote is from Radical Feminist Theory by Bonnie Burstow #this is as spoiler-free as possible but still thread carefully #barbie movie

[whiteshipnightjar]

Does art make a difference?

Aw, sure. Of course there are degrees of extremity to the potential change that art can effect, depending on how many people are able to engage with it. The Beatles made a huge difference in the world. But Henry Darger, Jeff McKissack, Karen Dalton, Pauline Oliveros, Kenneth Patchen – there are so many folks who have made great art and not gotten massively famous for it, yet I think there are all sorts of ways their work informs and shapes other people’s work, and brains, and decisions.

Should politics and art mix?

Well, everything mixes, the New Statesman! That’s like asking if a knee-reflex hammer and a quadriceps tendon should “mix”.

Is your work for the many or for the few?

That’s for the many/few to say. I just crank out the hot jams.

If you were world leader, what would be your first law?

Gravity. I feel like we need to tighten up the constitutional protections that particular law enjoys. It’s a ticking time bomb, if you ask me.

Who would be your top advisers?

Cute angel on one shoulder, cute devil on the other.

What, if anything, would you censor?

Maybe we could all agree to not bust each other’s chops all cut-dang day.

If you had to banish one public figure, who would it be?

Don’t know, banishment might be a little extreme, but I’d sure like to take that Stephen Hawking dude down a notch or two. Right? Are you with me?

What are the rules that you live by?

Basically, “bros before hos”. I feel like if you stay true to that, everything else just kind of falls into place.

Do you love your country?

I love William Faulkner, Dolly Parton, fried chicken, Van Dyke Parks, the Grand Canyon, Topanga Canyon, bacon cheeseburgers with horseradish, Georgia O’Keeffe, Grand Ole Opry, Gary Snyder, Gilda Radner, Radio City Music Hall, Big Sur, Ponderosa pines, Southern BBQ, Highway One, Kris Kristofferson, National Arts Club in New York, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Joni Mitchell, Ernest Hemingway, Harriet Tubman, Hearst Castle, Ansel Adams, Kenneth Jay Lane, Yuba River, South Yuba River Citizens League, “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”, “Hired Hand”, “The Jerk”, “The Sting”, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, clambakes, lobster rolls, s’mores, camping in the Sierra Nevadas, land sailing in the Nevada desert, riding horseback in Canyon de Chelly; Walker Percy, Billie Holiday, Drag City, Chez Panisse/Alice Waters/slow food movement, David Crosby, Ralph Lauren,San Francisco Tape Music Center, Albert Brooks, Utah Phillips, Carol Moseley Braun, Bolinas CA, Ashland OR, Lawrence KS, Austin TX, Bainbridge Island WA, Marilyn Monroe, Mills College, Elizabeth Cotton, Carl Sandburg, the Orange Show in Houston, Toni Morrison, Texas Gladden, California College of Ayurvedic Medicine, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Saturday Night Live, Aaron Copland, Barack Obama, Oscar de la Renta, Alan Lomax, Joyce Carol Oates, Fred Neil, Henry Cowell, Barneys New York, Golden Gate Park, Musee Mechanique, Woody Guthrie, Maxfield Parrish, Malibu, Maui, Napa Valley, Terry Riley, drive-in movies, homemade blackberry ice cream from blackberries picked on my property, Lil Wayne, Walt Whitman, Halston, Lavender Ridge Grenache from Lodi CA, Tony Duquette, Julia Morgan, Lotta Crabtree, Empire Mine, North Columbia Schoolhouse, Disneyland, Nevada County Grandmothers for Peace; Roberta Flack, Randy Newman, Mark Helprin, Larry David, Prince; cooking on Thanksgiving; Shel Siverstein, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Radziwill, Jackie Onassis, E.B. White, William Carlos Williams, Jay Z, Ralph Stanley, Allen Ginsberg, Cesar Chavez, Harvey Milk, RFK, Rosa Parks, Arthur Miller, “The Simpsons”, Julia Child, Henry Miller, Arthur Ashe, Anne Bancroft, The Farm Midwifery Center in TN, Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Clark Gable, Harry Nilsson, Woodstock, and some other stuff. Buuuut, the ol’ U S of A can pull some pretty dick moves. I’m hoping it’ll all come out in the wash...

Are we all doomed?

If we keep our expectations pretty low I think we might be fine. I mean, we’re definitely all dying at some point. There’s no getting around that. But between now and then, things might start looking up!

— Joanna Newsom for The New Statesman, 2008

#joanna newsom #isn't she simultaneously just the most hilarious and thoughtful person? #i love her so much #a few people have asked me for that one quote about loving her country but the whole interview is a real gem i hope y'all enjoy it #love joanna #jnew

[heartofmontana]

Ruth Snyder

Ruth Brown Snyder (1895 - 12 January 1928) was an American murderess. Her execution, in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison, for the murder of her husband, Albert, was captured in a well-known photograph.

Snyder, the first woman executed in Sing Sing since 1899, went to the electric chair only moments before her former lover. The final moments of her execution (by "State Electrician" Robert G. Elliott) were caught on film with the aid of a miniature plate camera custom-strapped to the ankle of Tom Howard, a Chicago Tribune photographer working in cooperation with the Tribune-owned New York Daily News. Howard's camera was owned for a while by inventor Miller Reese Hutchison, then later became part of the collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

Note her shirt is tastefully opened low enough to give the doctor’s stethoscope access to her heart.  One can only imagine what her heart sounded like at this moment. Pounding…or silent?

#dark cardiolhillia

[fuffette]

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami Invisibility: A Manifesto by Audrey Szasz Bunny by Mona Awad Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado The Encyclopedia of the Dead by Danilo Kiš One Hundred Shadows by Jungeun Hwang Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto Whale by Myeong-Kwan Cheon The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald The Overstory by Richard Powers Poison by Kathryn Harrison Bitter Orange by Fuller, Claire We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Fowler, Karen Joy The Edible Woman by Atwood, Margaret A School for Fools by Sokolov, Sasha Ferdydurke by Gombrowicz, Witold The Iliac Crest by Rivera Garza, Cristina Paris Peasant by Aragon, Louis The Making of a Marchioness by Burnett, Frances Hodgson Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Semple, Maria Hell by Barbusse, Henri The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Letts, Billie Find Me by Berg, Laura van den * Big Swiss by Beagin, Jen Mariana by Dickens, Monica The Lime Works by Bernhard, Thomas Dead Souls by Gogol, Nikolai Gargoyles by Bernhard, Thomas The Pachinko Parlour by Dusapin, Elisa Shua Lolly Willowes by Warner, Sylvia Townsend Rebecca by du Maurier, Daphne The Hearing Trumpet by Carrington, Leonora Jane Eyre by Brontë, Charlotte The Savage Detectives by Bolaño, Roberto Solitude: A Novel of Catalonia by Català, Víctor Almond by Sohn Won-Pyung My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Moshfegh, Ottessa Heaven by Kawakami, Mieko Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo Convenience Store Woman by Murata, Sayaka Iza's Ballad by Szabó, Magda The Door by Szabó, Magda Phantom Limb by Berry, Lucinda The Night Journal by Crook, Elizabeth Faces in the Water by Frame, Janet Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Abgaryan, Narine The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Bronsky, Alina Eileen by Moshfegh, Ottessa I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Moore, Lorrie The Stationery Shop by Kamali, Marjan Breasts and Eggs by Kawakami, Mieko Milkman by Burns, Anna The Maid by Prose, Nita The Guest by Cline, Emma Hang the Moon by Walls, Jeannette The Secret of Ventriloquism by Padgett, Jon The Salt Line by Jones, Holly Goddard Perdido Street Station by Miéville, China The Accursed by Oates, Joyce Carol Occupy Me by Sullivan, Tricia Poison Study by Snyder, Maria V. The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Fox, Hester Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Fawcett, Heather Skylark by Kosztolányi, Dezső Blue of Noon by Bataille, Georges Ruth Hall and Other Writings by Fern, Fanny The Vegetarian by Han Kang Nadja by Breton, André Exquisite Corpse by Brite, Poppy Z. Ice by Kavan, Anna Kallocain by Boye, Karin Palimpsest by Valente, Catherynne M. Elena Knows by Piñeiro, Claudia Landor's Tower: Or Imaginary Conversations by Sinclair, Iain The Birthday Party by Mauvignier, Laurent The Magnolia Palace by Davis, Fiona Memories of the Future by Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund Under a Glass Bell by Nin, Anaïs Sugar by McFadden, Bernice L. Vintage Cisneros by Cisneros, Sandra Raising Hope by Willard, Katie Chodleros de Laclos Les Liasions Dangereuses by Various Daddy-Long-Legs by Webster, Jean Local Anaesthetic by Grass, Günter Don't Stop the Carnival by Wouk, Herman Confessions of Felix Krull by Mann, Thomas The House of Mirth by Wharton, Edith Radiant Terminus by Volodine, Antoine Shanghai Girls by See, Lisa The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov, Mikhail (Translator: Mirra Ginsburg) Owlish by Tse, Dorothy

undue influence by anita brookner slip of a fish by amy arnold beside myself by ann morgan blue ticket by sophie mackintosh nostalgia by mircea cartarescu I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Crane, Marisa

#saved

[musicktoplayinthedark]

Ruth Snyder In Electric Chair Thomas James Howard