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View of the conflagration from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco [California], night of May 3d, 1851/Map of the burnt district of San Francisco showing the extent of the fire

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Title: View of the conflagration from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco [California], night of May 3d, 1851/Map of the burnt district of San Francisco showing the extent of the fire
Creator: De Vere, J. (active ca. 1851), lithographer Noisy Carrier's Book and Stationary Co. (Ch. P. Kimball) (active ca. 1851-ca. 1856), publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: 1851
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: View from Russian Hill(?) showing central commercial area engulfed in flames; harbor at left. Includes map of area with annotations.
Printed title (below images). Stamped (LR): Noisy Carrier's Publishing Hall, 77 Long Wharf, San Francisco, Charles P. Kimball, propretor [sic]. Handwritten annotations. Blind stamp (UC). Attribution to De Vere based on comparison to 1963,002:0160--A.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph 27.1 x 21.2 cm., image on sheet 27.1 x 42.4 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf229007s1
BANC PIC 1963.002:0159--B
Subject: California, Northern
Events
Fires
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements

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