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Title
The first trial & execution in San Francisco [California] on the night of 10th of June at 2 o'clock
Creator
W. C. K., artist Justh, Quirot & Co. (active ca. 1851-ca. 1852), lithographer and publisher
Date Created and/or Issued
[1851]
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
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Description
Plaza at night crowded with people; figure hangs from beam of building.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Del. after the nature by W.C.K.; (LR): Pub. & lith. Justh Quirot & Co., cor[ne]r Calif[ornia] & Montg[omery] st[reet]s, S[an] F[rancisco]. Printed information about event (LC, below title).
Type
image
Format
Print on tinted paper: lithograph 21.9 x 27.6 cm., image on sheet 43.7 x 27.6 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3t1nb5f3
BANC PIC 1963.002:0038 (variant)--B
Subject
California, Northern
Criminals
Events
San Francisco (Calif.)

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