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A wolf in the fold, or a fair trial of Laura [D. Fair]

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Title: A wolf in the fold, or a fair trial of Laura [D. Fair]
Creator: Kock & Harnett (active 187-), American, printer
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1871]
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: Scathing account of Laura D. Fair murder trial verdict and jurors told in pictures and short limericks. Central image of Fair in bedroom dressed in undergarments surrounded by portrait vignettes of the jurors (most depicted as animals); courtroom scene above, shooting scene and Fair in jail below. Each scene is accompanied by deprecatory limerick.
Printed title (LC, within image). Printed (LR): Print by Kock & Harnett, S[an] F[rancisco].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper mounted on board: lithograph 50 x 38.5 cm., folded to 38.5 x 25 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4j49p3bm
BANC PIC 1963.002:0874--B
Subject: Animals
Criminals
Manners & customs
Women

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