Title

Destructive Fire at San Francisco - 400 Buildings Burnt, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Destructive Fire at San Francisco, [USA] - 400 Buildings Burnt, 1850. 'By the United States mail, received on Wednesday morning, a correspondent has forwarded us a Lithograph of a conflagration, which took place at San Francisco on the night of May 4, and intelligence of which had been received in New York just prior to the mail leaving...The lithograph is roughly executed, but it shows...the extent of the conflagration as seen from Portsmouth-square. [The fire is] stated to have consumed 400 buildings'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

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Reference

HRM22A33_297

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36,2Mb (3,9Mb) / 16,5in x 8,5in / 4960 x 2551 (300dpi)

Keywords

California building buildings people crowd crowds spectators San Francisco smoke burning fire flame flames spectator British dramatic accident Victorian century Britain onlookers newspapers press concept incident B&W engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W on fire onlooker nineteenth century USA The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper Yerba Buena Unknown 19th-century