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Title: Earthquake in San Francisco, California, October 21, 1868
Creator: [Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued: [1868]
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: Four images captioned: Coffey & Risdon's Building, Railroad House & Rosebaum's Tobacco Warehouse, The Gas works, and California Street below Sansome. Mainly views of damaged buildings with some people on streets.
Printed title (LC). Brief article describing earthquake accompanies images. From Harper's Weekly, 1868[?].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper mounted on board: engraving 19.2 x 24.3 cm., on mount 26.7 x 38 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf796nb78f
BANC PIC 1963.002:0616--B
Subject: Buildings
California, Northern
Events
San Francisco (Calif.)

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