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Description
V2p100a In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. II, page 100 top left. This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco." Bust-length portrait photographed from a newspaper of John "Jack" Winters, alias Buck Taylor. Text written under photo: "The man who tunneled under the vaults of the Selby Smelting Works at Martinez stole silver bricks valued at $50,000 and hid them under the waters of the bay from where they were recovered by Captain of Detectives Issah Lees." The Selby works were actually in the town of Selby near Crockett; the robbery of gold, not silver, bricks took place the night of August 5, 1901. Also have negative no. (4x5 in.): 29,795.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photoprint ; 6 5/8 x 4 5/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001381720CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVV-4979
Subject
Criminals--California--San Francisco San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints Portraits
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