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View of the fire in Sacramento City [California] on the night of 2d and 3d of November 1852, taken from the levee

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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: Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), 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: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: City engulfed in flames; large explosion at left; crowds with belongings in foreground.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LR): Lith. & Published by Britton & Rey, corner Montgomery & California St[reet]s, S[an] Francisco. Blind stamp (UC): Rolland Freres, Bordeaux.
Type: image
Format: Photograph on paper: lithograph 21.2 x 26.7 cm., image on sheet 42.4 x 26.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf096nb2sm
BANC PIC 1963.002:0163--B
Subject: California, Northern
Events
Fires
Sacramento (Calif.)
Settlements

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