Publication Place: San Francisco, California / Subject (Geographic): San Francisco (Calif.)

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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

Creator:: Britton & Rey, lithographer
Published / Created:: [1856?]
Call Number:: WA Prints 401
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image and text
Abstract:: A sheet with two vignettes. The first, at top, "Rooms of the Committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front," shows building facades on Sacramento Street. Activities include the shoring of a bunker and gathering of ammunition. Men stand ready with canno...
Description:: Title from caption at top of sheet.
Publisher:: Britton and Rey
Subject (Geographic):: San Francisco (Calif.), California, and San Francisco.
Subject (Name):: San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856.
Subject (Topic):: Crime and Vigilance committees
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fort Vigilant : rooms of the Committee Sacramento St. betn. Davis & Front. : mass meeting endorsing the acts of the Vigilance Committe June 14th

Creator:: Cockrill, Theodore Guarvarius, 1834-1899, compiler
Published / Created:: [circa 1874]
Call Number:: WA Photos 626
Container / Volume:: Box
Image Count:: 213
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A photograph album, owned at one time by Theodore Guarvarius Cockrill, chief of the San Francisco police, with identification photographs of Chinese and Chinese-American men, circa 1874. Each photograph includes the name of the individual and an ident...
Description:: Theodore Guarvarius Cockrill (1834-1899) of Bowling Green, Kentucky, was chief of the San Francisco Police Department in California from 1873 December to 1875 December.
Subject (Geographic):: California, California., and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):: Cockrill, Theodore Guarvarius, 1834-1899. and San Francisco (Calif.). Police Department.
Subject (Topic):: Chinese, Chinese Americans, Identification photographs, Police, Race relations, and Social conditions
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Album of identification photographs of Chinese men].