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Fire in San Francisco [California] in the night from the 3[r]d - 4th May, 1851

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Title: Fire in San Francisco [California] in the night from the 3[r]d - 4th May, 1851
Creator: Justh & Co. (active ca. 1851), lithographer
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 Nob Hill looking towards waterfront with entire wharf area engulfed in flames; figures flee in all directions.
Printed title (UC). Printed (LC, below title): loss $20,000,000; (LR): Lith. Justh & Co., Broadway between Dupont & Stockton St[reet]s. Handwritten (LL): x F.S.H. Store/about where the fire commenced.
Type: image
Format: Print on tinted paper: lithograph 22.8 x 29 cm., sheet
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4z09p2nd
BANC PIC 1963.002:0037--A
Subject: California, Northern
Fires
San Francisco (Calif.)
Waterfronts

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