By Parties Unknown, Hale Aspacio Woodruff

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1900–1980
By Parties Unknown, 1935
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: wove paper; linocut
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 305 x 223 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 374 x 302 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 12 x 8 3/4 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 3/4 x 11 7/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 16 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Lucy Shaw Schultz Fund
Accession number: 1995.0027
Not on display

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Brosseau Center for Learning: In Conversation with the 2016 KU Common Book

“There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally. In the era of mass lynching, it was so difficult to find who, specifically, served as executioner that such deaths were often reported by the press as having happened ‘at the hands of persons unknown.’” ("Between the World and Me," p. 97)

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