Title:
Surrender of James P. Casey and Charles Cora to the Vigilance Committee on Sunday, May 18th, 1856 [San Francisco, California]
Creator/Contributor:
Huestis, Charles B. (active ca. 1856-ca. 1859), artist (artist)
Town Talk, printer (printer)
Date:
[1856]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0115--B
Format:
print on tinted paper: engraving
11 x 19.9 cm., image on sheet 25.7 x 39.7 cm.
Content/Description:
Includes image of jail surrounded by armed crowds; canon faces jail as prisoner is escorted to carriage.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LR, within image): Huestis; (LC, above title):The Revolution of the People, the county jail in
San Francisco besieged by three thousand citizen soldiers, armed and equipped; (LR): Town Talk, print. Handwritten letter
dated 1856 on recto and verso. Blind stamp (LL): [S]essurs. For variant see 1963.002:0116--B.
Subjects:
Buildings;
California, Northern;
Criminals;
Events;
Military personnel;
San Francisco (Calif.)
Genre/Format:
Engravings;
Pictorial lettersheets