Image / Great fire in San Francisco [California]

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Title: Great fire in San Francisco [California]
Creator: [Unknown]
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 as seen from waterfront area; people with belongings crowd wharf and windows of buildings in rush to escape fire which took place on June 22, 1851.
Printed title (LC).
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving, hand colored 22.3 x 27.9 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4r29p339
BANC PIC 1963.002:0617--A
Subject: California, Northern
Events
Fires
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements
Waterfronts

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