Pictorial Letter Sheet SF Earthquake 1868
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Title: Earthquake in San Francisco, Cal. Oct. 21st. 1868
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:D. Appleton & Co.
Date Published: 1868
Description:
Author:
Title: Earthquake in San Francisco, Cal. Oct. 21st. 1868
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:D. Appleton & Co.
Date Published: 1868
Description:
Lithograph, double-sheet, with 3 illustrations on top half of left-side sheet, with printed text below and continuing across to fill the entire right-side sheet. Folded size 26.7x20.5 cm (10½x8¼"), gray wove paper.
Three illustrations. Left to right: RAIL ROAD HOUSE (House and next building settling and tilting, man on street in front); COFFEY & RISDON'S BUILDING (collapsed); Scene in Louisa St. (man without his pants carrying a child down a flight of stairs). Extensive text under the illustrations (and continuing on p. 4) describes this as the worst shock since California became a United States possession-also worse than the October 8, 1865 earthquake-and enumerates various resulting deaths and events. Baird 61; Clifford 53.
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Old folds, some toning, neat restoration in upper margin replacing a chip; very good.
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Pictorial Letter Sheet SF Earthquake 1868
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