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Title
View of the fire in Sacramento City [California] on the night of 2d and 3d of November 1852, taken from the levee
Creator
Quirot & Company (active ca. 1851-ca. 1853), lithographer and publisher
Date Created and/or Issued
[18--]
Publication Information
Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection
Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information
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Description
City engulfed in flames; large explosion at left; crowds with belongings in foreground.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LR): Lith. & pub. by Quirot & Co, corn[er] Montgomery & California St[reet]s, S[an] F[rancisco]. Blind stamp (UC).
Type
image
Format
Photograph on paper: lithograph, hand colored 21 x 27 cm., image on sheet 42 x 27 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf058006kg
BANC PIC 1963.002:0163 (variant)--B
Subject
California, Northern
Events
Fires
Sacramento (Calif.)
Settlements

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