- 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]
- 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]
- Creator:
- Goddard, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1906, artist
- Published / Created:
- May 1853.
- Call Number:
- WA Prints 391
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- cartographic image
- Description:
- BEIN copy 1: Foxed with fading. On sheet 21 x 26 cm., BEIN copy 2: Foxed. On sheet 21 x 26 cm., Coordinates not present on map and are approximated., and Relief shown pictorially.
- Publisher:
- G.S. Wells and Lith. Britton & Rey
- Subject (Geographic):
- Sonora (Calif.) and California
- Subject (Topic):
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sonora from the north
- Creator:
- Goddard, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1906, artist
- Published / Created:
- May 1853.
- Call Number:
- WA Prints 391
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- cartographic image
- Description:
- BEIN copy 1: Foxed with fading. On sheet 21 x 26 cm., BEIN copy 2: Foxed. On sheet 21 x 26 cm., Coordinates not present on map and are approximated., and Relief shown pictorially.
- Publisher:
- G.S. Wells and Lith. Britton & Rey
- Subject (Geographic):
- Sonora (Calif.) and California
- Subject (Topic):
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sonora from the north
- 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]