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Execution of James P. Casey and Charles Cora, by The Vigilance Committee, of San Francisco [California, and related images]

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Title: Execution of James P. Casey and Charles Cora, by The Vigilance Committee, of San Francisco [California, and related images]
Creator: Huestis, Charles B. (active ca. 1856-ca. 1859), engraver
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: Includes four views: Execution of James P. Casey and Charles Cora by the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco on Thursday, May 22d, 1856 from windows of their rooms in Sacramento Street between Front and Davis Streets (Fort Gunneybags); Assassination of James King of William; James P. Casey, Charles Cora, Yankee Sullivan, Edw. M'Gowan; and Surrender of Ja[me]s P. Casey. Textual descriptions accompany images.
Printed title (UL image). Printed (UL, LL, and LR images): Huestis; (LL): For sale by M. Ullmann, corner of Sansome and Washington Streets, San Francisco. Printed captions.
Type: image
Format: Print on color paper: engraving 28.4 x 43.7 cm., sheet
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8779p5m0
BANC PIC 1963.002:0002--B
Subject: Buildings
California, Northern
Criminals
Events
San Francisco (Calif.)

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