Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Beck, Carl A. (active starting 1906), artist
Group Creator Name:
- Schmidt Lithograph Company (active ca. 1900-ca. 1925), lithographer
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
The greatest conflagration in the history of the world: the burning of San Francisco [California], April 18, 19, 20, 1906
Date:
[not before 1906]
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph, color
Dimensions:
63.6 x 94.8 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0582--E
Subject:
- California, Northern
- Events
- Fires
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Settlements
- Waterfronts
- Bird's-eye views
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
Notes:
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
Heading:
Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
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].
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf3s20096 3

The greatest conflagration in the history of the world: the burning of San Francisco…