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Published / Created:: [1850]
Call Number:: WA Prints 388
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A large crowd of spectators watches many buildings burn
Description:: Title from caption below image.
Publisher:: Pub. by W.B. Cooke & Co, Portsmouth Square
Subject (Geographic):: California and San Francisco
Subject (Topic):: Fires, San Francisco (Calif.), and Buildings, structures, etc
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Great fire in San Francisco : May 4th, 1850 : 400 buildings burned! : loss $5,000,000!

Published / Created:: [1852]
Call Number:: WA Prints 427
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An enormous fire rages among a large number of buildings, with debris flying from an explosion and numerous spectators watching helplessly from an adjacent open area
Description:: Title from caption below image.
Publisher:: Lith. & Pub.by Quirot & Co., corn. Montgomery & California Sts., S.F.
Subject (Geographic):: California, Sacramento, Sacramento (Calif.), California., and Sacramento.
Subject (Topic):: Fires
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > View of the fire in Sacramento City : on the night of 2d. & 3rd. of November 1852, taken from the levee : loss: ten millions of dollars!!!.