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Title
Frontier Village horse thief wanted poster
Creator
Unknown
Contributor
Frontier Village (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
circa 1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
Contributing Institution
San José Public Library, California Room
Collection
Frontier Village Collection
Rights Information
The San Jose Public Library California Room can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are responsible for satisfying any claims of the copyright holder. Permission to copy or publish any portion of San Jose Public Library California Room collection must be given by the San Jose Public Library California Room. For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the California Room: http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/ca/contacts_index.htm
Description
This is a Frontier Village horse thief wanted poster. The name of the horse thief is Kid Campbell. The poster has a sketch of Kid Campbell in the middle and the writing surrounding the sketch says "Wanted! Dead or Alive $5000 reward Horse thief Kid Campbell Mouse Ear - Mike, Wild Red, Hooknose Blackie, Tulsa Tom, Bogus Joe and a few others." The sketch depicts a man with a hat and scruffy beard and moustache.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg2000
Scanned with Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 16-bit Grayscale. Compressed to 8-bit and JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
Extent
15.5 x 14 in.
Identifier
http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/sjplfv/id/184
Language
English
Subject
Amusement parks
Caricatures
Criminals
Design drawings
Fictitious characters
Men
Sketches
Frontier Village
Time Period
Wild West in American history
Place
San Jose
California
Source
Frontier Village Collection, 1961-1980

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