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Tremendous Excitement! Samuel Whittaker and Robert McKenzie rescued from the authorities and hanged by the Vigilance Committee, on Sunday, August 24th at 3 o’clock P. M. in the presence of Fifteen thousand people

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Title: Tremendous Excitement! Samuel Whittaker and Robert McKenzie rescued from the authorities and hanged by the Vigilance Committee, on Sunday, August 24th at 3 o’clock P. M. in the presence of Fifteen thousand people
Date Created and/or Issued: 1850
1851
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image is of a crowd in the foreground gathered outside several buildings and bodies hanging from the rafters of two buildings in the background. Several buildings are labeled. Text below image describes the events of August 24th. "Lith. & Publ. by Justh, Quirot & Co. Calif. corner Montg. Sts. S.F."--text, below image. Paper color: blue.
Type: image
Format: High resolution
Extent: 1 lithograph : uncolored ; 21.8 x 27.3 cm (8 5/8 x 10 3/4 in.) overall
Identifier: 48052:016
15066
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23401
Language: English
Subject: California--Pictorial works
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851
Vigilance Committees--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--History
Whittaker, Samuel
McKenzie, Robert
Lithographs. (aat)
Source: California letter sheets.
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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