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Title: Great Fire in San Francisco, May 4th, 1850: 400 buildings burned [California]
Creator: William B. Cooke & Company (active ca. 1850), publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: 1850
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 Portsmouth Square of buildings engulfed in flames, crowds in foreground watch blaze. Map shows area destroyed by fire.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LR): Pub. by W.B. Cooke & Co., Portsmouth Square.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph 21 x 26.6 cm., sheet
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3199p1g4
BANC PIC 1963.002:0048--A
Subject: Buildings
California, Northern
Events
Fires
San Francisco (Calif.)

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