The Oakland Tribune Collection, the Oakland Museum of California. Gift of ANG Newspapers.
Copyright status:
In Copyright
Copyright holder:
Oakland Museum of California
Content description:
A large crowd of all-male witnesses assembles on a road inside the San Quentin Prison compound, waiting to be led into the death house where Burton Abbott will be executed in the gas chamber. The crowd is dwarfed by the enormous cell blocks of the prison.
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