Description
A collection of approximately 30,000 glass plate negatives from the W. W. Foster collection, Richmond, VA, c. 1900-25. Negative # 52944. Petit Jury, to try Jefferson Davis, copy, 1911. Copy photograph of a large assemblage of 5 photographic prints mounted on imprinted board. Main text: Petit Jury. This is the Petit Jury impaneled to try President Jefferson Davis, being the first mixed Petit Jury ever impaneled in the United States. Inscribed beneath left group photo: Copyright Lee Gallery Richmond Va. As identified on mount, subjects include: top left, Chief-Justice Chase; top middle, President Davis; top right, Judge Underwood. Left group photograph, back row, left to right: E. Fox, J. Freeman, J. R. Fitchett, J. Cox, H. L. Wiggard. Front row: W. A. Parsons, L. Carter, C. P. Fitchett, F. Smith, J. E. Frazier. Seated in front: N. Van Lew. Right group photograph, back row, left to right: L. [Till?], L. Boyd, Thomas Lucas, M. Lipscomb, A. Lilly, ---Milburn. Front row: J. B. Miller, B. Wardwell, A. Brooks, L. Lindsay, J. Morrisey, Dr. W. Scott. Seated in front: J. Turner.
