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
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
Creator:
Justh, Quirot & Co.
Date:
1851-0800
Extent:
1 print (pictorial lettersheet) : lithograph, b&w ; 21 x 27 cm.
Language:
English
Spatial:
California
Subject:
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851—Pictorial works
Hanging—California—San Francisco—Pictorial works
Lynching—California—San Francisco—Pictorial works
Vigilance committees—California—San Francisco—Pictorial works
Lithographs
Abstract:
Pictorial lettersheet view of crowd watching hangings carried out by the first (San Francisco) vigilance committee of 1851.
Provenance:
Related to Baird, California's Pictorial Lettersheets, No. 274.
Description:
Title from text printed below image.
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."
WA copy: On blue wove paper with blank conjugate leaf attached.