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Superior Street, Duluth, in about 1925. The gas streetlights have been replaced with electric ones.

The Duluth Herald ran this photo of the lynch mob as it stormed the jail. Thousands of people lined the streets and watched.

The cells in which five of the six prisoners were held; the sixth was placed in a cell upstairs.

When one segment of the mob was unable to break down the cell door fast enough, another group broke through the wall.

The lynching as photographed by Ralph Greenspun. This view later appeared on postcards.

The lamppost at Second Avenue East and First Street where the mob lynched three men accused of rape.

The Duluth city jail, the morning after the lynching of three men.

A caravan of police cars brought the other men from the circus down from Virginia, Minnesota, while members of the Tank Corps stood guard along the street to prevent another mob action.

The Clayton, Jackson, McGhie Memorial in Duluth viewed from the corner of Second Avenue East and First Street. The memorial is located diagonally opposite the corner where the lynchings took place.