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The greatest conflagration in the history of the world: the burning of San Francisco [California], April 18, 19, 20, 1906

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Title: The greatest conflagration in the history of the world: the burning of San Francisco [California], April 18, 19, 20, 1906
Creator: Beck, Carl A. (active starting 1906), artist Schmidt Lithograph Company (active ca. 1900-ca. 1925), lithographer
Date Created and/or Issued: [not before 1906]
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: Bird's-eye view of city seen from foot of Market Street following earthquake; fire raging in downtown area and Nob Hill. Ferry building and piers in foreground
Printed title (LC). Printed (LR, within image): C.A. Beck; (LC): Over 450 square blocks were destroyed with a loss of over 500 million dollars/in the above scene the fire line is over five miles in length on the evening of the first day; (LR): Schmidt Lithograph Co., S[an] F[rancisco].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, color 63.6 x 94.8 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3s200963
BANC PIC 1963.002:0582--E
Subject: California, Northern
Events
Fires
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements
Waterfronts

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