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Title: Great excitement in San Francisco, California [two street scenes]
Creator: Vance, Robert H. (active ca. 1851-ca. 1862), American, photographer
Date Created and/or Issued: [1856]
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: Images illustrate events following assassination of James King of William, Chief Editor of San Francisco Bulletin, by James Casey. Upper image depicts groups of men crowding Sacramento Street following news of King's assassination; lower image shows crowds witnessing arrival of Casey and Cora at the Vigilance Committee rooms.
Printed title (UC). Printed captions (upper image): View down Sacramento Street, San Francisco, showing the excitement on the street. From a daguerreotype by R. H. Vance; (lower image): Arrival of Casey and Cora at the Vigilance Committee Rooms, San Francisco, Cal[ifornia]. From sketch by our artist. Images accompanied by article "Assassination of James King of William..." Clipping from Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 28, 1856[?].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving 37.2 x 25.2 cm., sheet
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf0s2006xk
BANC PIC 1963.002:0609--B
Subject: California, Northern
Criminals
Events
Frontier & pioneer life
San Francisco (Calif.)

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