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- 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. and Pictorial letter sheet on white wove paper, showing the execution by hanging of John Jenkins on June 10, 1851.
- 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
3.
- 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. and Spelling of "Furniture" on sign in this image differentiates it from a variant in the Robert B. Honeyman collection (BANC PIC 1963.002:151) with spelling "Fourniture."
- 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
4.
- 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. and "Taken from cor. Davis & Commercial."
- 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
5.
- 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 their heads, are suspended below the open trap door of the gallows
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., "Noisy Carier's Book & Stationery Co."--Lower right corner., and Joseph Hetherington and Philander Brace were each accused of murdering two men in two separate incidents, and were executed by the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance.
- 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
6.
- Published / Created:
- [1851?]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints 382
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., "His confession & evidence proved him guilty of the murder of Chas. Moore, Sheriff of Yuba County, -- of the murderous assault & robbery of Mr. Jansen in this city, & of the Captain of the brig Jas. Caskie in this harbor -- of the robbery of the custom house at Monterey -- besides numerous other robberies & murders. No criminal was ever more daring or successful -- more reckless or cold blooded. He was a Sydney convict, transported for life for forgery. His last words were 'I die resigned -- my sentence is just.'", and "View taken from the storeship Byron. Foot of Market St. wharf San Francisco."
- 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
7.
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Venezuel Cwv m812s
- Collection Title:
- History of the adventures and sufferings of Moses Smith : during five years of his life, from the
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- Imperfect: plate is torn and is missing lower left corner with no loss of text. and Verso blank.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Spain --Armed Forces --Officers, Spain --Colonies --Venezuela, and Venezuela --History --Miranda’s Expedition, 1806
- Subject (Name):
- Miranda, Francisco de, 1750-1816
- Subject (Topic):
- Beheading, Executions, Executions and executioners, and Hanging
- Collection Created:
- Brooklyn : Printed by Thomas Kirk, Main-Street, for the author ..., 1812
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Execution of ten of Miranda's officers