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Surrender of James P. Casey and Charles Cora to the Vigilance Committee on Sunday, May 18th, 1856 [San Francisco, California]

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Title: Surrender of James P. Casey and Charles Cora to the Vigilance Committee on Sunday, May 18th, 1856 [San Francisco, California]
Creator: Huestis, Charles B. (active ca. 1856-ca. 1859), artist Town Talk, printer
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: Includes image of jail surrounded by armed crowds; canon faces jail as prisoner is escorted to carriage.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LR, within image): Huestis; (LC, above title):The Revolution of the People, the county jail in San Francisco besieged by three thousand citizen soldiers, armed and equipped; (LR): Town Talk, print. Handwritten letter dated 1856 on recto and verso. Blind stamp (LL): [S]essurs. For variant see 1963.002:0116--B.
Type: image
Format: Print on tinted paper: engraving 11 x 19.9 cm., image on sheet 25.7 x 39.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1m3nb3f6
BANC PIC 1963.002:0115--B
Subject: Buildings
California, Northern
Criminals
Events
Military personnel
San Francisco (Calif.)

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