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Title: Tremendous excitement [execution of Whittaker and McKenzie]
Creator: Justh, Quirot & Co. (active ca. 1851-ca. 1852), lithographer and publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
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: Large crowd of men and women gathered to witness two men hanging from upper story of building.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, below title): Samuel Whittaker and Robert Mc Kenzie rescued from the authorities and hung by the Vigilance Committee, on Sunday, August 24th at 3 o'clock P.M. in the presence of fifteen thousand people; (LC, below title): Lith. & Publ. by Justh, Quirot & Co., Calif[ornia], corner Montg[omery] st[reet]s, S[an] F[rancisco].
Type: image
Format: Print on tinted paper: lithograph 21.2 x 25.5 cm., image on sheet 45 x 28.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf9z09p67p
BANC PIC 1963.002:0151 (variant)--B
Subject: Buildings
California, Northern
Criminals
Events
San Francisco (Calif.)

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