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[Vigilance Committee hanging of James Stuart on July 11, 1851, San Francisco, California]

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Title: [Vigilance Committee hanging of James Stuart on July 11, 1851, San Francisco, California]
Creator: Taber, W. (active ca. 1891), artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [1891]
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: Riotous crowd of men on Market Street Wharf surround gallows where Stuart stands awaiting execution with noose around his neck. Rowboats on water, men climbing in rigging of a ship and standing on adjacent buildings to watch execution.
Handwritten title (LR): Vigilance Committee Hanging, Ja[me]s Stuart, San Francisco, July 11, 1851. Signature (LL, within image): Taber. Probably an illustration for magazine article in The Century.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: pen and ink 29.7 x 44.2 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3v19p2hc
BANC PIC 1963.002:0304--B
Subject: California, Northern
Criminals
Events
San Francisco (Calif.)
Waterfronts

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