vigilance committee

Justice Meted Out to "English Jim" by the Vigilantes, San Francisco Harbor John Prendergast c. 1853 event was July 11, 1851	(Sharpshooters of the 1856 Committee of Vigilance) unknown 05/15/56 Vigilance Committee Sharpshooters. Condition: very good. The first Vigilance Committe disbanded in 1851. But there was a continuing perception of violence in San Franicisco. The tide of unrest...
pamphlet Cowan II 1851 pamphlet. Description: Assassination of James King of Wm.; San Francisco, Cowan II, p. 329.	broadside February 23, 1851 Broadside. Description: "To the People of San Francisco!" Vigilante Committee. Broadside, 1851, in which minority of Committee is requesting punishment of 2 prisoners. Printed...
Untitled (Portrait of James King of William) Robert H. Vance c.1855 Quarter plate daguerreotype with hand tinted cheeks in original case. King was a crusading newspaper editor whose assassination sparked the Vigilante Uprising of 1856.