Salted-paper print, Cased photographs and related images from The Bancroft Library pictorial collections, F869.S3.9 F138x:08—VAULT, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Creator/Contributor: George R. Fardon, photographer
Date: [June 1856]
Location: San Francisco
Sandbag fortifications are in front of the building, armed guards are on the sandbags and on the roof, and the bell of the Monumental Engine Co. is mounted on the roof, as are small cannons. Cora and Casey had been hanged here some weeks previously. The sign at left is for Mills and Vantine liquor merchants, and the sign at right reads “Brown & Crowell.”
Image with DetailsBAck to Chapter Six
