Title:
View of the last great conflagration in San Francisco [California] on the 22nd of June 1851
Creator/Contributor:
Justh, Quirot & Co. (active ca. 1851-ca. 1852), lithographer and publisher (lithographer and publisher)
Date:
1851
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0168--A
Format:
print on paper: lithograph
23.2 x 28.7 cm.
Content/Description:
City engulfed in flames; onlookers in foreground; Portsmouth Square to right; Telegraph Hill in distance.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, below title): Ten Squares burned, Loss $3,000,000. View from the head of California Street
during the progress of the fire; (LC, above title): Pub. & lith. by Justh Quirot & Co., California St[reet], corner Montgomery,
S[an] F[rancisco].
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Events;
Fires;
San Francisco (Calif.);
Settlements
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Lithographs;
Pictorial lettersheets