Image / Tremendous Conflagration of Columbia, July 10th 1854

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Title: Tremendous Conflagration of Columbia, July 10th 1854
Creator: Britton & Rey, printer
Britton & Rey, publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: 1854
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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 of buildings burning lustily with great billowing clouds of fire and smoke engulfing the town. Crowds of men are running or looking at the fire in the foreground. "Pub. by Britton & Rey."--text, below image. Baird notes that the image is exciting because of its use of extreme contrasts to achieve night and fire effects. Paper color: gray.
Type: image
Format: High resolution
Extent: 1 lithograph : uncolored ; 20 x (25 cm 7 7/8 x 10 in.)
Identifier: 48052:050
48708
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23437
Language: English
Subject: California--Pictorial works
Fires--California
Columbia (Calif.)
Lithographs. (aat)
Source: California letter sheets.
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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