Title:
The greatest conflagration in the history of the world: the burning of San Francisco [California], April 18, 19, 20, 1906
Creator/Contributor:
Beck, Carl A. (active starting 1906), artist (artist)
Schmidt Lithograph Company (active ca. 1900-ca. 1925), lithographer (lithographer)
Date:
[not before 1906]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0582--E
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, color
63.6 x 94.8 cm.
Content/Description:
Bird's-eye view of city seen from foot of Market Street following earthquake; fire raging in downtown area and Nob Hill. Ferry
building and piers in foreground
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LR, within image): C.A. Beck; (LC): Over 450 square blocks were destroyed with a loss of over
500 million dollars/in the above scene the fire line is over five miles in length on the evening of the first day; (LR): Schmidt
Lithograph Co., S[an] F[rancisco].
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Events;
Fires;
San Francisco (Calif.);
Settlements;
Waterfronts
Genre/Format:
Bird's-eye views;
Lithographs, color