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Cabinet in Warden's Office, containing weapons captured from convicts in the break of Folsom Prison, June 27 - 1893

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Title: Cabinet in Warden's Office, containing weapons captured from convicts in the break of Folsom Prison, June 27 - 1893
Date Created and/or Issued: [1893]
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: 2010-0713.
Shows display case containing photographs of seven convicts who were part of escape (Sontag, Williams, Hy Wilson, Dalton, Abbott, and Hayseed Wilson), three additional photos of Schell, Duffy and Wm. Fredericks, Winchester rifles, pistols, knife and bags of ammunition. Newspaper articles on verso describing cabinet and resolution by Prison Director Neff to his staff in recognition of their courage.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on boudoir card ; 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001393420CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-6785
Language: English
Subject: Sontag, George,, 1864--Photographs
Folsom Prison--Photographs
Prisoners--California--Folsom
Prison escapes--California--Sacramento County
Firearms
Sacramento County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Boudoir card photographs
Place: California
Folsom
Sacramento County
Sacramento County (Calif.)

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