Letter sheet with SF in flames 1851
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Title: View of the Last Great Conflagration in San-Francisco on the 22d of June, 1851. Ten Squares burned. Loss $3,000,000. View Taken from the head of California Street During the Progress of the Fire
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Justh Quirot & Co.
Date Published: [before July 14th, 1851]
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Title: View of the Last Great Conflagration in San-Francisco on the 22d of June, 1851. Ten Squares burned. Loss $3,000,000. View Taken from the head of California Street During the Progress of the Fire
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Justh Quirot & Co.
Date Published: [before July 14th, 1851]
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Lithograph illustration, approx. 18.5x26.7 cm (7¼x10½"), on a double sheet measuring 22x27 cm (9¼x11¼"), blue or gray wove paper.
View, from Nob Hill diagonally over the Plaza to Telegraph Hill, of burning city; bay in background. Peters, California on Stone, p. 137 & Plate 45. This devastating fire was San Francisco's sixth since Christmas Eve of 1849. Exploding kegs of miners' blasting powder and bands of looters added to the terror. Baird 301; Clifford 308.
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Slight creasing, light stain to blank conjugate; very good.
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Letter sheet with SF in flames 1851
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