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Geo. Sontag of Evans and Sontag fame, the noted California outlaws in a moral lecture showing the outcome of a life of crime

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Title: Geo. Sontag of Evans and Sontag fame, the noted California outlaws in a moral lecture showing the outcome of a life of crime
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1910]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 1999-0285.
Poster advertising a lecture, illustration with caption: "Night battle at Evan's home." Shows three men firing rifles towards a barn; carriage near the barn with one horse standing and one horse on the ground; moon shining in a cloudy sky above the barn.
Negative, no. 5,507 (4 x 5 in. and 5 x 7 in.)
Type: image
Format: Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 painting : oil on canvas, col. ; 42 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001378697CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-1940
Language: English
Subject: Sontag, John,, 1861--Pictorial works
Sontag, George,, 1864--Pictorial works
Evans, Christopher,, 1847-1917--Pictorial works
Gunfights--California--Tulare County
Train robberies--California
Criminals--California--Tulare County
Lecturers--California
Brigands and robbers--California
Tulare County (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Posters
Oil paintings
Place: California
Tulare County
Tulare County (Calif.)

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