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Title: 1896 McGlincy house and barn
Contributor: Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998 (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1896
Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Historic Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use. For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the California Room: http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/ca/contacts_index.htm
Description: Photograph of the McGlincy house and barn, site of a mass murder on May 26, 1896. James Dunham murdered his wife, stepfather, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, the family maid, and a farm hand. James Dunham fled and was never caught. The house where most of the murders were committed is on the left. A horse and carriage waits outside the house. Another carriage can be seen through one of the open barn doors. The house was demolished in 1955.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg2000
Scaled to 3000 pixels width. Grayscale strip cropped from image. Scanning outsourced to Northern Micrographics as part of the Local History Digital Resources Project, 2005-2006. Technical metadata is limited
Extent: 11 x 14 cm.
Identifier: http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/arbuckle/id/712
Language: English
Subject: Agricultural facilities
Crimes
Homicides
Serial murderers
McGlincy, Richard P., d.1896
Dunham, James
Place: Campbell
California
Source: Clyde Arbuckle Photograph Collection

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