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James Stuart hung by the Vigilance Committee on Market St[reet] Wharf on the 11th of July, 1851 [San Francisco, California]

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Title: James Stuart hung by the Vigilance Committee on Market St[reet] Wharf on the 11th of July, 1851 [San Francisco, California]
Creator: 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: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Waterfront area with crowd gathered along wharf where male figure hangs from scaffolding; people also crowd on boats to watch execution.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, below title): View taken from the Storeship Byron/foot of Market St[reet] Wharf, San Francisco; (LR): Publ. & lith. by Justh, Quirot and Co., Calif[ornia], corn[er] Montg[omery] St[reet]s, S[an] F[rancisco]. Handwritten note (LC): Page 562, Annals of San Francisco. For variant see 1963.002:0057--A.
Type: image
Format: Print on tinted paper: lithograph 21.7 x 27.2 cm., sheet
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7p3011s2
BANC PIC 1963.002:0066--A
Subject: California, Northern
Events
San Francisco (Calif.)
Waterfronts

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