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Pictorial Letter Sheet Great Earthquake 1865

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Title: Great Earthquake in San Francisco, October 8th, 1865. [No. 1]
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Description: 3 wood engravings. Sides: 2¼x1½ each; center: 3¾x4¼, printed across a double sheet measuring approx. 10¾x8¼ overall, white wove paper.Three illustrations across upper part of sheet: Center: 'Wreck of Building S.E. Corner of Third and Mission Streets.' Left: 'Scene on Bush Street' (a woman holding up a naked baby by its left foot); Right: 'Scene on O'Farrell Street' (a servant girl leaving a house with a trunk on her back and a Bible in her hand). Some printed text under each illustration; a longer description, headed 'General Effects of the Shake', follows. Baird 94; Clifford 91.
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Date Published: [c. 1865]