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Title: Geo. Sontag illustrated lecture on the folly of a life of crime
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1910]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 1999-0284.
Poster advertising a lecture, illustration with caption: "John Sontag, Captured Bandit, U. S. Marshall Guard [sic] and Posse." Shows John Sontag (also known as John Constant) lying dying in a field with four-man posse who captured him, U. S. Marshall George E. Gard at right.
Negative, no. 5,506 (4 x 5 in.)
Type: image
Format: Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 painting : oil on canvas, col. ; 30 1/4 x 43 in.
Identifier: (C)001378696CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-1939
Language: English
Subject: Sontag, John,, 1861--Pictorial works
Sontag, George,, 1864--Pictorial works
Criminals--California--Tulare County
Brigands and robbers--California
Train robberies--California
Tulare County (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Posters
Oil paintings
Place: California
Tulare County
Tulare County (Calif.)

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