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Execution of Brace and Hetherington by the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco, Cal[ifornia]

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Title: Execution of Brace and Hetherington by the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco, Cal[ifornia]
Creator: [Unknown]
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: Crowds and soldiers on plaza and surrounding buildings; gallows platform with two men hanging in center; "Fort Gunnybags" at right. The men were hung by the Committee of Vigilance for the murderers of Baldwin, Randall, West, and Marion on July 29th, 1856
Printed title (LC). Printed date (on verso): September 13, 1856. From periodical Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving 20.9 x 24.8 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2z09p0xz
BANC PIC 1963.002:0614--A
Subject: California, Northern
Criminals
Events
Frontier & pioneer life
San Francisco (Calif.)

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