. English: Original caption from NYPL : 'Gibbet used in St. Vadier [sic for St. Vallier] near Quebec in 1763 for the body of Mdme. Dodier hung for murder of her husband. Exhumed in 1850 [sic for 1851] and sold to the Boston Museum theater and after that was given up-sent to the Essex Institute.' Photograph of the gibbet of Marie-Josephte Corriveau, better known as the 'cage of La Corriveau', a gibbet cage (human form structure made of iron bands designed to publicly display the corpse of an executed criminal) used to display in April-May 1763 the corpse of Marie-Josephte Corriveau, hung in Que
. English: Original caption from NYPL : 'Gibbet used in St. Vadier [sic for St. Vallier] near Quebec in 1763 for the body of Mdme. Dodier hung for murder of her husband. Exhumed in 1850 [sic for 1851] and sold to the Boston Museum theater and after that was given up-sent to the Essex Institute.' Photograph of the gibbet of Marie-Josephte Corriveau, better known as the 'cage of La Corriveau', a gibbet cage (human form structure made of iron bands designed to publicly display the corpse of an executed criminal) used to display in April-May 1763 the corpse of Marie-Josephte Corriveau, hung in Quebec City (18 April 1763) for the murder of her husband Louis Dodier. The original photograph was taken for the Essex Institute, between 1899 and 1916. It was published many times before 1923 : Visitor's guide to Salem, Salem, Essex Institute, 1916, p. 77; 'Gibbet from Quebec', Old-time New England, vol. 11 (juil. 1920-avril 1921), p. 14; Visitor's guide to Salem, Salem, The Essex Institute, 1922, p. The image scanned by the New York Public Library is a copy of the Essex Institute's original. . between 1899 and 1916 The gibbet was given to the Essex Institute in 1899 by David P. Kimball The photograph was published in 1916 : Visitor's guide to Salem, Salem, Essex Institute, 1916, p. 77. 711 Gibbet of La Corriveau (NYPL) (cropped-2)
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