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Title
Great Earthquake in San Francisco, October 8th, 1865. [No. 1]
Date Created and/or Issued
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information
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Description
Image contains 3 vignettes. The left vignette depicts a woman holding up a naked baby by its left foot. The center vignette depicts a four-story building with its right half fallen in and a seemingly undamaged two-story building next to it. The right vignette depicts a servant girl leaving a house with a trunk on her back and a Bible in her hand. Under each vignette is text further describing each scene. "Scene on Bush Street. Wreck of Building S. E. Corner of Third and Mission Streets. Scene on O'Farrell Street."--text, below image. Below the image is text describing the events of the earthquake that occurred on October 8th, 1865. This text continues onto the next page of the sheet. Paper color: buff.
Type
image
Format
High resolution
Extent
1 wood engraving : uncolored ; 27 x 21.5 cm (10 5/8 x 8 1/2 in.) overall
Identifier
48052:151
48823
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23546
Language
English
Subject
California--Pictorial works
San Francisco (Calif.)--History
Earthquakes--California
Wood engravings. (aat)
Source
California letter sheets.
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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