Image / Seven convicts who made the break at Folsom Prison June 27th 1893

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Title: Seven convicts who made the break at Folsom Prison June 27th 1893
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1893 and 1901?]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2010-0694.
Shows seven separate head-and-shoulder portraits of individual men with identifying captions. Prisoners include: Frank Williams, Charles Abbott, Thomas (Hayseed) Wilson, George Contant, William Dalton, George Sontag, Hy Wilson.
Have second copy with accompanying data identifying criminals and crime.
Also have negative: no. 6961 (4x5 in.) for second copy; no. 21,834 second copy, image of Sontag.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on cardboard mount ; image 8 7/8 x 6 3/4 in. on mount 10 x 8 in.
Identifier: (C)001393388CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-6752
Language: English
Subject: Folsom Prison--Photographs
Criminals--California--Folsom
Prison escapes--California--Folsom
Prisoners--California--Folsom
Folsom (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Folsom
Folsom (Calif.)

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