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Title: View of Fire in Sacramento City
Date Created and/or Issued: 1852
1853
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 of a tremendous fire on Front St. and in the background on J, K, and L streets. There are people, barrels, and crates covering the levee foreground. Text under the image describes the events of November 2nd and 3rd, 1852, and the cost of the damage. "Lith. & Pub. by Quirot & Co. corn. Montgomery & California Sts. S.F."--text, below image. "Noisy Carrier's Publishing Hall. Lon[g] Wharf San Francisco. Charles P. Kimball Proprietor."--stamped text, lower right corner. Paper color: gray.
Type: image
Format: High resolution
Extent: 1 lithograph : uncolored ; 19.5 x 26 cm (7 5/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
Identifier: 48052:046
48704
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23433
Language: English
Subject: Sacramento (Calif.)--History
California--Pictorial works
Fires--California
Lithographs. (aat)
Source: California letter sheets.
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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