Color and Black Printing - 2 Broadsides

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San Francisco California, I.N. Choynski, 1880s, Paper Print

Old, Minor marks or impressions at edges.

2 Graphic Broadsides Showing Anti-Chinese activist Denis Kearney Behind Bars House of Correction Kearney being tormented by a group of Chinese men holding torn sock , cigars , A fish labeled Black Friday, etc. following his arrest for inciting a riot. The Chinese Must Go! was the slogan of the Working Mans Party of California. On July 24 1877 at one of the parties rallies ,Denis Kearney incited a riot. Party men gathered for a demonstration on Mission Street at the United States Mint , near the Woolen Mills , a major Chinese employer. The next evening a crowd gathered at the Pacific Mail Steamers Dock , where Chinese workers arrived from Asia. The demonstrators set fire to a lumber yard and attacked the firefighters. Police shot four rioters dead.
Printer - publisher I.N. Choynski who was one of the early antiquarian booksellers in San Francisco. 1877-1882

Broadside printed in Black on thicker card stock paper, wear at corners, some color toning at back, minor marks. Measures 11 1/8 X 14 inches.

Broadside printed in shaded color , condition old mounting cloth adhered at two locating near top edge. Some minor weight type impression upper right edge. Measures 11 X 14 inches.

Blank at backs.