Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Huestis, Charles B. (active ca. 1856-ca. 1859), artist
Group Creator Name:
- Town Talk, printer
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
Surrender of James P. Casey and Charles Cora to the Vigilance Committee on Sunday, May 18th, 1856 [San Francisco, California]
Date:
[1856]
Materials:
print on tinted paper: engraving
Dimensions:
11 x 19.9 cm., image on sheet 25.7 x 39.7 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0115--B
Subject:
- Buildings
- California, Northern
- Criminals
- Events
- Military
personnel
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Engravings
- Pictorial lettersheets
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Includes image of jail surrounded by armed crowds; canon faces jail as prisoner is escorted to carriage.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LR, within image): Huestis; (LC, above title):The Revolution of the People, the county jail in San Francisco besieged by three thousand citizen soldiers, armed and equipped; (LR): Town Talk, print. Handwritten letter dated 1856 on recto and verso. Blind stamp (LL): [S]essurs. For variant see 1963.002:0116--B.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf1m3nb3f 6

Surrender of James P. Casey and Charles Cora to the Vigilance Committee on Sunday, M…