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Pictorial Letter Sheet San Francisco Fire 1850

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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