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Map of the Burnt District Sixth Great Conflagration in San Francisco. June 22nd 1851

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Title: Map of the Burnt District Sixth Great Conflagration in San Francisco. June 22nd 1851
Date Created and/or Issued: 1851
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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 a view of the harbor and town from Telegraph Hill. The town is burning at right, the harbor full of ships is at left, and crudely-drawn people are on the hill in the foreground. Baird notes that this is a reworking of the "View of the Conflagration...May 3rd 1851." "J. De Vere del."--text, below image. "Noisy Carrier's Publishing Hal[l]. 77 Long Wharf San Francisco. Charles P. Kimball Propretor [sic]."--stamped text, lower right corner. Paper color: gray. This is only the illustration; the portion of the sheet containing a map of the burnt district is missing (according to Baird's notes).
Type: image
Format: High resolution
Extent: 1 lithograph : uncolored ; 15.5 x 27 cm (6 1/16 x 10 5/8 in.) overall.
Identifier: 48052:134
48795
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23530
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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