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Title: Fort Vigilance/Surrender of the law and order forces
Creator: Huestis, Charles B. (active ca. 1856-ca. 1859), engraver
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: Upper image: barricades with cannons in front of Fort Vigilance, armed men on street, barricade, and roof of buildings. Lower image: surrender of soldiers to Vigilance Committee; large crowd of armed men surround building.
Printed title (below images). Printed (upper image, below title): Sounding of the alarm bell and a general rush to arms; (lower image, below title): Their arms, amunition [sic] and accoutrements, at the California Exchange, (The Old Post Office); (lower image): Huestis. Handwritten (on verso): page 4.
Type: image
Format: Print on tinted paper: wood engraving 25 x 21 cm., sheet
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2x0nb4tn
BANC PIC 1963.002:0144 (page 4)--A
Subject: Arms & armaments
Buildings
California, Northern
Events
Military personnel
San Francisco (Calif.)

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