Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Executions of Casey & Cora, by the San Francisco Vigilance Committee May 22nd, 1856 [California]

Collection: 
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Group Creator Name: 
- Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), publisher
Title: 
Executions of Casey & Cora, by the San Francisco Vigilance Committee May 22nd, 1856 [California]
Date: 
[1856]
Materials: 
print on paper: lithograph
Dimensions: 
20.9 x 27.2 cm., image on sheet 27.2 x 41.8 cm.
Current Location: 
Bancroft Library.
Address: 
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID: 
BANC PIC 1963.002:0187 (variant)--B
Subject: 
- Buildings - California, Northern - Criminals - Events - Military facilities - Military personnel - San Francisco (Calif.) - Cityscapes - Lithographs - Pictorial lettersheets
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Content/Description:
Notes: 
View from corner of Davis and Commercial Streets showing large crowd surrounding plaza lined with armed guards; two figures hang from side of Fort Gunnybags to left; New Orleans Exchange building in plaza.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes: 
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Taken from cor[ner] Davis & Commercial; (LR): Pub. by Britton & Rey.
Collection Description: 
METS ID: 
ark:/13030/tf238nb3k9