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1865 California Earthquake Letter Sheet

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Title: The Great Earthquake in San Francisco, October 8th, 1865. - No. 2.
Author: **
Description: Wood engravings and text printed across a double sheet measuring approximately 10½x16½ overall, blue wove, faintly ruled paper.Three illustrations. Center: View of the Weil & Levy building, badly damaged, at corner of Sacramento and Battery streets; Left: "Bathing-house Scene." (people fleeing from Warm Sea Baths nude or half-dressed); Right: En Dishabille (a half-dressed man standing embarrassed near some fully-clothed women). Short description under each vignette; remainder of the page, all of p. 4 and half of p. 3 contain text entitled: "A Survey of the Field After the Shake." Short manuscript note on rear from Parker T. Vickery[?], dated at San Francisco, October 17, 1865. Baird 95 [Baird does not locate this issue with publisher Appleton's notice printed below text on p. 3.]; Clifford 92 (this copy).
Heading: (Pictorial Letter Sheets)Place Published: [San Francisco]
Publisher: D.E. Appleton & Co.
Date Published: [1865]