A Darker Part of Tacoma's History on eBay

This photo on eBay came to my attention and, while my normal perspective is quite positive, this isn’t.  The photo is, however, a piece of our city’s history.  What is it?  It’s a photo of a hanging man with a caption of “Lynched -Tacoma Washington”.  The photo is estimated to be from 1902.  This auction prompted me to do a bit of digging on the unsettling events part of the Library’s Northwest Room’s online database.  I hadn’t been to the site in a while.  You know, Tacoma has quite a past…

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