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San Francisco the Morning After the Great Fire of May 4th. View Taken From the Corner of Broadway & Sansome Sts

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Title: San Francisco the Morning After the Great Fire of May 4th. View Taken From the Corner of Broadway & Sansome Sts
Date Created and/or Issued: 1851
1852
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image is of a view to the west of San Francisco. It is a scene of complete devastation; only a few brick shells of buildings are standing in the center and to the right. The buildings in the right foreground appear to be intact, and they are labeled with signs. Some people can be seen trying to clean up or find items that survived. "J. P. del."--text, below image. "1850 [crossed out]. 1851."--handwritten text, below image. Paper color: gray.
Baird notes that this apparently is a drawing of a fire that occurred on May 4th, 1851.
Type: image
Format: High resolution
Extent: 1 lithograph : uncolored ; 27 x 42 cm (10 5/8 x 16 3/8 in.) overall
Identifier: 48052:189
48856
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23568
Language: English
Subject: California--Pictorial works
San Francisco (Calif.)--History
Fires--California
Lithographs. (aat)
Source: California letter sheets.
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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