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View of the last great conflagration in San Francisco on the 22d of June, 1851 – Historic Photograph Print

View of the last great conflagration in San Francisco on the 22d of June, 1851, [1851] — historic print
View of the last great conflagration in San Francisco on the 22d of June, 1851, [1851]. Historic print from the San Francisco collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: View of the last great conflagration in San Francisco on the 22d of June, 1851, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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View of the last great conflagration in San Francisco on the 22d of June, 1851

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This view records the fire of June 22, 1851, the last of the major blazes that swept San Francisco that year and destroyed much of its young business district. The picture is a halftone reproduction of an 1851 lithograph credited to a San Francisco firm, though the catalog notes that this attribution comes from an unverified caption card. The city's rapid growth during the Gold Rush meant that many of its buildings were wooden and closely packed, so fires spread quickly. Images like this one show how residents and printmakers chose to document a disaster that was still fresh.

Created / published[1851]
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
NotesHalftone repro. of lithograph by Fusth Quirst & Co., San Francisco. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Disasters.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,223 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-155936

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