The greatest conflagration in the history of the world: the burning of San Francisco [California], April 18, 19, 20, 1906

not before 1906

Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material

BANC PIC 1963.002:0582--E

Image

63.6 x 94.8 cm.

print on paper: lithograph, color

The Bancroft Library

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].
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].

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