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San Francisco, Cal. Burning of St Charles and Hillman's Hotel on the Morning of Feby. 18th 1855

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Title: San Francisco, Cal. Burning of St Charles and Hillman's Hotel on the Morning of Feby. 18th 1855
Creator: Britton & Rey, printer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1855
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image is of the general view from the Nob Hill area looking east with Yerba Buena Island in the background at night. Part of the city is in flames. Two figures are standing on the hill in the foreground. Baird notes that this is a "rough but effective" reworking of the stone used for "San Francisco, 1854." "Lith. of Britton & Rey Cor Montgy. & Comml. Sts."--text, below image. Paper color: gray.
Type: image
Format: High resolution
Extent: 1 lithograph : uncolored ; 28 x 42.5 cm (11 3/8 x 16 5/8 in.) overall.
Identifier: 428052:147
48800
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23538
Language: English
Subject: California--Pictorial works
San Francisco (Calif.)--History
Fires--California
Lithographs. (aat)
Source: California letter sheets.
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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