Manuscripts

San Francisco's Fire Belle Lilie Hitchcock

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Description: A draft manuscript for "San Francisco's Fire Belle Lillie Hitchcock, mascot of the old San Francisco Knickerbocker Fire Company-no. 5." Also includes an envelope of photographs.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1930.
Call number: mssHM 19335
Creator: Dressler, Albert(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of 1957.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Franklin Walker page from San Francisco's literary frontier :

Manuscripts

One page from Franklin Walker's book San Francisco's literary frontier. Typewritten with handwritten corrections. The text relates to American writer Ambrose Bierce, Christianity, and the Chinese in San Francisco.

mssHM 84315

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Notable people of San Francisco and other miscellaneous photographs

Visual Materials

Notable people of San Francisco and the Bay Area: William A. Leidesdorff (drawing); photocollage of 148 headshots of "distinguished citizens of San Francisco" who participated in the Centennial Anniversary, 1876; photocollage of 40 "Public Men of San Francisco"(1870s?); Alfred J. Share, Oakland reporter; Rev. Benjamin Akerly; Charles McPhail Hitchcock, Martha T. Hitchcock (copies); Lillie Hitchcock Coit in firefighter helmet; Isaac Green Messec, Joseph Pownell, Gen. I. H. Dewall; E. Calishen; E. Skidmore (early San Francisco printer); I. B. Pownall as a boy. Other portrait photographs in this folder: U.S. Army general Edward Canby by Carleton Watkins; Rev. John Sackville Sharp (1799-1895) and fifth generation grandchild Marjorie Clover; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Franklin Thorpe; Sarah M. Cool; Gen. Stonewall Jackson; Eva Mackay (Princess Colonna) as a child (1862?); Elizabeth Smith (mourning photograph).

photPF 2760-2779

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Photographs of the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake and fire

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Photographs by an unknown photographer documenting the aftermath of the April 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, California. Images depict the devastated buildings and landscape as well as tent cities and bird's eye views over the city.

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San Francisco, 1854. Fire of July 11th

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Image is of the general view of San Francisco from Nob Hill looking east with Yerba Buena Island in the background. Part of the city is in flames (Jackson Street, as Baird notes). There are several figures in the foreground viewing the fire. "Lith. of Britton & Rey Cor Montg. & Comm. Sts."--text, below image. Paper color: gray. Baird notes that this image is a variant state of the stone used for "San Francisco, 1854."

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Destruction of San Francisco by earthquake & fire

Visual Materials

Image of nineteen views of scenes and buildings in San Francisco, California, after the great earthquake and fire of 1906; views of buildings and elevated street views show destruction from the disaster, including people taking refuge in Golden Gate Park, distribution of bread, and ruins from various vantage points in the city; each scene is captioned.

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The Bancroft Building fire, San Francisco

Manuscripts

Typewritten manuscript which describes the history of the Bancroft Building and its tenants, as well as the outbreak, losses, and casualties of the April 30, 1886 fire. Also includes a photograph of the Bancroft Building on fire and a sketch of the burned-out building.

mssHM 73694

San Francisco's Fire Belle Lilie Hitchcock

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