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Title: The great conflagration at Sacramento, California
Creator: [Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued: [1852?]
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 seen across Sacramento River; figures in rowboats and sidewheel steamship in foreground. Probably the fire of November 2 and 3, 1852.
Printed title (LC): The great conflagration at Sacramento, California -- see page 11. From periodical (Harpers Weekly?).
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving, hand colored 17.7 x 23.5 cm., on mount 21.5 x 30.9 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf100006gg
BANC PIC 1963.002:0649--A
Subject: California, Northern
Events
Fires
Rivers
Sacramento (Calif.)
Settlements

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