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1500 shots were fired from this gun into Sontag's bunch when they made the break

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Title: 1500 shots were fired from this gun into Sontag's bunch when they made the break
Date Created and/or Issued: [189-?]
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: 2009-1123.
Shows top of guard tower with one of guards standing next to Gatling gun.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on boudoir card ; 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001393456CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-6821
Language: English
Subject: Folsom Prison--Photographs
Prisons--California--Sacramento County
Gatling guns
Prison guards--California--Sacramento County
Sacramento County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Sacramento County
Sacramento County (Calif.)

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