Josefa-Juanita, from La Historia de California Calendar 1977
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Rodriguez, Patricia, Artist
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Josefa was a mexican woman from Sonora, Mexico who was hanged by a mob of frontier miners in Downivielle in 1851. She was 26 years old and pregnant when the lynching took place on July 4, 1851.Inscription in pencil below the image area reads "35/200, Josefa Juanita, Patricia Rodriguez 77"
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Rodriguez, Patricia, Artist
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