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View of the last great conflagration in San Francisco [California] on the 22nd of June 1851

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Title: View of the last great conflagration in San Francisco [California] on the 22nd of June 1851
Creator: Justh, Quirot & Co. (active ca. 1851-ca. 1852), lithographer and 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: City engulfed in flames; onlookers in foreground; Portsmouth Square to right; Telegraph Hill in distance.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, below title): Ten Squares burned, Loss $3,000,000. View from the head of California Street during the progress of the fire; (LC, above title): Pub. & lith. by Justh Quirot & Co., California St[reet], corner Montgomery, S[an] F[rancisco].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph 23.2 x 28.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5489p2mz
BANC PIC 1963.002:0168--A
Subject: California, Northern
Events
Fires
San Francisco (Calif.)
Settlements

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