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Great excitement in San Francisco [California], front of the jail, the Vigilance Committee taking possession of Cora and Casey

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Title: Great excitement in San Francisco [California], front of the jail, the Vigilance Committee taking possession of Cora and Casey
Creator: Dallas (active ca. 1856), artist
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: Casey and Cora being led from jail by Vigilance Committee to waiting carriage; crowds on street, balconies and roofs of surrounding buildings; vigilanities with rifles and cannon in front.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL, within image): Dallas; (LR): J.[?] W.O.H. N[ew] Y[ork]. Clipping from Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 28, 1856[?].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving 26 x 37 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf387008h0
BANC PIC 1963.002:0610--B
Subject: California, Northern
Criminals
Events
Frontier & pioneer life
San Francisco (Calif.)

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