Title:
The great conflagration at Sacramento, California
Creator/Contributor:
[Unknown]
Date:
[1852?]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0649--A
Format:
print on paper: engraving, hand colored
17.7 x 23.5 cm., on mount 21.5 x 30.9 cm.
Content/Description:
City engulfed in flames seen across Sacramento River; figures in rowboats and sidewheel steamship in foreground. Probably
the fire of November 2 and 3, 1852.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC): The great conflagration at Sacramento, California -- see page 11. From periodical (Harpers Weekly?).
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Events;
Fires;
Rivers;
Sacramento (Calif.);
Settlements
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Engravings, color