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Title: Great Fire in San Fransisco(sic). M[backwards 'a']y 4th, 1850. Buildings Burned! Loss $5,000,000.
Author: ** Description: Lithograph illustration: approx. 6x9½; map: 2x2½, on a single sheet measuring approx. 8¾x10½, white wove paper.View of east side of Portsmouth Square showing buildings burning there and in the block behind, to west side of Montgomery Street; spectators in foreground. Map, below, shows three square blocks burned. This is the earlier state (Baird 96 is the later state). Baird 96a; Clifford 93 (variant). Heading: (Pictorial Letter Sheets)Place Published: San Francisco Publisher: W.B. Cooke & Co. Date Published: 1850 Condition reportMounted on tissue, a few repaired tears to lower margin, upper and lower edges unevenly trimmed, some soiling; else good.
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