Title:
Josefa-Juanita, from La Historia de California Calendar 1977
Creator/Contributor:
Rodriguez, Patricia, Artist
Date:
1977
Subject:
Chicanas
Women
Lynching
Women in art
Mexican Americans
Violence
Rape
Gold miners California
Gold rushes California 1840-1850. TGM-1
Downivielle (Calif)
Juanita, Josefa, ca. 1825-1851
Note:
Josefa was a mexican woman from Sonora, Mexico who was hanged by a mob of frontier miners in Downivielle in 1851. She was
26 years old and pregnant when the lynching took place on July 4, 1851.
Inscription in pencil below the image area reads "35/200, Josefa Juanita, Patricia Rodriguez 77"
Type:
35mm slide
Language:
English
Identifier:
CEMA 8
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