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1.
Execution of Casey & Cora, by the San Francisco Vigilance Committee, May 22d. 1856

Published / Created:
[1856?]
Call Number:
WA Prints 397
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A large crowd looks across an open space to a row of commercial buildings where, in the distance, two men can be seen hanging
Alternative Title:
Execution of Casey and Cora, by the San Francisco Vigilance Committee
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California, San Francisco, and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Casey, James P., Cora, Charles, and San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856.
Subject (Topic):
Death & burial and Hanging
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Execution of Casey & Cora, by the San Francisco Vigilance Committee, May 22d. 1856

2.
Execution of Hetherington and Brace, the murderers of Baldwin, Randall, West and Marion, July 29th

Published / Created:
[1856?]
Call Number:
WA Prints 403
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a large square overlooked by a row of buildings, a central gallows is surrounded by large numbers of armed men in guard-like rows, behind whom crowds are massed. The hanging has already occurred; the two condemned men's bodies, with hoods over thei...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Lith. & pub. by Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California, San Francisco, and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Hetherington, Joseph, 1820?-1856, Brace, Philander, -1856, and San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856.
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Executions and executioners, Hanging, and Gallows
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Execution of Hetherington and Brace, the murderers of Baldwin, Randall, West and Marion, July 29th, 1856

3.
Execution of James P. Casey & Charles Cora by the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco Thursday May

Creator:
Grob, T. (Trautman), artist
Published / Created:
[1856?]
Call Number:
WA Prints 380
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
stilll image
Abstract:
A group of civilians (mostly men) look across an open space to where two barely discernible individuals have been hanged from the roof of a row of buildings
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed by F. Kuhl
Subject (Geographic):
California and San Francisco
Subject (Name):
Casey, James P., Cora, Charles, and San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856.
Subject (Topic):
Death & burial and Hanging
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Execution of James P. Casey & Charles Cora by the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco Thursday May 22d, 1856

4.
James Stuart hung by the Vigilance Committee on Market St. wharf, on the 11th of July 1851

Published / Created:
[1851?]
Call Number:
WA Prints 382
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Publ. & lith. by Justh Quirot & Co., Calif. corn. Montg. Sts
Subject (Geographic):
California and San Francisco
Subject (Name):
Stuart, James, 1816-1851 and San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851.
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Hanging, and Harbors
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Stuart hung by the Vigilance Committee on Market St. wharf, on the 11th of July 1851 : immense multitude present : 500 of the Vigilance Committee on duty at the execution

5.
The first trial & execution in S. Francisco on the night of 10th of June, at 2 o'clock

Creator:
Justh, Quirot & Co.
Published / Created:
[1851]
Call Number:
WA Prints 410
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
First trial and execution in San Francisco
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Pub. and Lith. Justh, Quirot & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
California, San Francisco, San Francisco (Calif.), and San Francisco.
Subject (Name):
Jenkins, John, 1815 or 1816-1851
Subject (Topic):
Hanging and Death and burial
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The first trial & execution in S. Francisco on the night of 10th of June, at 2 o'clock

6.
Tremendous excitement! : Samuel Whittaker and Robert McKenzie rescued from the authorities and hung

Creator:
Justh, Quirot & Co.
Published / Created:
[August, 1851]
Call Number:
WA Prints 386
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Pictorial lettersheet view of crowd watching hangings carried out by the first (San Francisco) vigilance committee of 1851
Alternative Title:
Samuel Whittaker and Robert McKenzie rescued from the authorities
Description:
Title from text printed below image.
Publisher:
Justh, Quirot & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
California, San Francisco, and San Francisco.
Subject (Name):
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 and San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851.
Subject (Topic):
Hanging, Lynching, Vigilance committees, Hangings (Executions), and Lynchings
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Tremendous excitement! : Samuel Whittaker and Robert McKenzie rescued from the authorities and hung by the vigilance committee on Sunday, August 24th at 3 o'clock p.m. in the presence of fifteen thousand people