- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1856]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints +441
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Horizontal print has four vignettes of scenes from the assassination. Assassination: depicts the actual crime in the streets of San Francisco. Surrender of the Jail: depicts mob scene as vigilance committee demands the sheriff to hand the prisoner to them. Funeral of Js. King: depicts the large crowds gathered along the street for the funeral procession. Execution: depicts the hanging of James Casey from the Vigilance Committee Rooms. The vignettes flank a central column of text which describes these scenes in detail
- Description:
- Title from caption of text column. and Printed area measures 26.2 x 39.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by Britton & Rey
- Subject (Geographic):
- California and San Francisco.
- Subject (Name):
- King, James, 1822-1856 and Casey, James P.
- Subject (Topic):
- Crime and Vigilance committees
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Assassination of James King of Wm. by James P. Casey : San Francisco, May 14th, 1856
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- Creator:
- Britton & Rey, lithographer
- Published / Created:
- 1856]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints 402 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Subject: Two vignettes: The first, at top, "Rooms of the Committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front" shows building facades on Sacramento Street. Activities include the shoring of a bunker and gathering of ammunition. Men stand ready with cannons on the rooftops. Ship masts are in the harbor in the distance. The second illustration with caption "Mass Meeting Endorsing the Acts of the Vigilance Committe[e] June 14th" shows large crowds gathered in the streets of San Francisco
- Description:
- BEIN WA Prints 402 Copy 2: Manuscript note at top: "Received Tuesday July 15, 1886.", "Noisy Carier's Book & Stationary Co."--Lower left corner., Pages [2-3] blank., and "Constitution and Address of the Vigilance Committee ... Adopted May 15th, 1856"--Page [4].
- Publisher:
- Britton & Rey
- Subject (Geographic):
- California, San Francisco., and San Francisco (Calif.)
- Subject (Name):
- San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856.
- Subject (Topic):
- Crime and Vigilance committees
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fort Vigilant Rooms of the committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front. : Mass meeting endorsing the acts of the Vigilance Committe[e] June 14th. / [graphic]
3.
- Creator:
- Britton & Rey, lithographer
- Published / Created:
- 1856]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints 402 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Subject: Two vignettes: The first, at top, "Rooms of the Committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front" shows building facades on Sacramento Street. Activities include the shoring of a bunker and gathering of ammunition. Men stand ready with cannons on the rooftops. Ship masts are in the harbor in the distance. The second illustration with caption "Mass Meeting Endorsing the Acts of the Vigilance Committe[e] June 14th" shows large crowds gathered in the streets of San Francisco
- Description:
- BEIN WA Prints 402 Copy 2: Manuscript note at top: "Received Tuesday July 15, 1886.", "Noisy Carier's Book & Stationary Co."--Lower left corner., Pages [2-3] blank., and "Constitution and Address of the Vigilance Committee ... Adopted May 15th, 1856"--Page [4].
- Publisher:
- Britton & Rey
- Subject (Geographic):
- California, San Francisco., and San Francisco (Calif.)
- Subject (Name):
- San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856.
- Subject (Topic):
- Crime and Vigilance committees
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fort Vigilant Rooms of the committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front. : Mass meeting endorsing the acts of the Vigilance Committe[e] June 14th. / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Ogilby, R. E., artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1850]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints 431
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- cartographic image
- Description:
- Relief shown pictorially., Coordinates not present on map and are approximated., The artist's last name is spelled incorrectly; the fifth character is a 'b' superimposed with a 'y'., and BEIN WA Prints 431 copy 2: Lower right corner chewed.
- Publisher:
- Lith. Britton & Rey
- Subject (Geographic):
- Grass Valley (Calif.), California, and Grass Valley.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Grass Valley, Nevada County, California
- Creator:
- Ogilby, R. E., artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1850]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints 431
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- cartographic image
- Description:
- Relief shown pictorially., Coordinates not present on map and are approximated., The artist's last name is spelled incorrectly; the fifth character is a 'b' superimposed with a 'y'., and BEIN WA Prints 431 copy 2: Lower right corner chewed.
- Publisher:
- Lith. Britton & Rey
- Subject (Geographic):
- Grass Valley (Calif.), California, and Grass Valley.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Grass Valley, Nevada County, California
- Published / Created:
- ©1856.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Two portraits, one in life, one after death. and "Entered ... in the year 1856, by James M. Hutchings ..."
- Publisher:
- J.M. Hutchings?
- Subject (Geographic):
- California, San Francisco., and California.
- Subject (Name):
- King, James, 1822-1856 and King, James, 1822-1856.
- Subject (Topic):
- Letterheads, Executions and executioners, and Assassination
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James King of William the patriot martyr of California : editor of the San Francisco evening bulletin, who was murderously assassinated by James P. Casey, May 14th, 1856 : portrait of Mr. King after death, showing the entrance and exit of the fatal ball. [print]
- Published / Created:
- ©1928.
- Call Number:
- 2016 815
- Image Count:
- 19
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Key to the shops around the world
- Description:
- BEIN 2016 815: Original illustrated wrappers. From the Richard Merkin papers., Cover title., Caption title on unnumbered page 1: The key to the shops around the world., and "Originated, designed and written by James King Steele; drawings by Dan Sweeney; color plates by California Photo Engraving Co."--Colophon.
- Publisher:
- Nippon Yusen Kaisha
- Subject (Topic):
- Travel and Shopping
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Shopping around the world
- Creator:
- Goddard, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1906, artist
- Published / Created:
- c1852.
- Call Number:
- 852.00.00.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- General view of Sonora showing mining encampment
- Description:
- BEIN WA Prints +445: Four buildings numbered in manuscript with manuscript legend to the right of title., Title from caption., Drawn by G.H. Goddard., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed to image border on upper edge.
- Publisher:
- Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1852 by G.H. Goddard in the clerks office of the dist. court of the Northern Dist. of Calafornia [sic] and Pollard & Brittons lith., Merchant Str
- Subject (Geographic):
- California, Sonora., and Sonora (Calif.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Mining camps
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sonora, January 1852 [graphic]
- Creator:
- Goddard, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1906, artist
- Published / Created:
- c1852.
- Call Number:
- WA Prints +445
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- General view of Sonora showing mining encampment
- Description:
- BEIN WA Prints +445: Four buildings numbered in manuscript with manuscript legend to the right of title., Title from caption., and Drawn by G.H. Goddard.
- Publisher:
- Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1852 by G.H. Goddard in the clerks office of the dist. court of the Northern Dist. of Calafornia [sic] and Pollard & Brittons lith., Merchant Str
- Subject (Geographic):
- California, Sonora., and Sonora (Calif.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Mining camps
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sonora, January 1852 [graphic]