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Execution of Jose Forner, Dec[ember] 10, 1852, on Russian Hill, San Francisco [California] for the murder of Jose Rodrigues

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Title: Execution of Jose Forner, Dec[ember] 10, 1852, on Russian Hill, San Francisco [California] for the murder of Jose Rodrigues
Creator: Justh, Quirot & Co. (active ca. 1851-ca. 1852), lithographer (attributed to) Noisy Carrier's Book and Stationary Co. (Ch. P. Kimball) (active ca. 1851-ca. 1856), printer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1852
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Execution of figure hanging from scaffolding erected on hill; armed guards surround platform as crowd observes event; San Francisco Bay in background.
Printed title (LC). Stamped (LL): Noisy Carrier Publishing [Hall, 77] Long Wharf, [San Francisco], Charles P. [Kimball, proprietor]. Attribution to Justh, Quirot & Co. based on Peter's California on Stone, p. 133.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph 20.3 x 26 cm., sheet
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf029006fr
BANC PIC 1963.002:0033 (variant)--A
Subject: California, Northern
Criminals
Events
San Francisco (Calif.)

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