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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Rare Books
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
![Great Earthquake in San Francisco, October 8th, 1865. [No. 1]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4KXMDSI%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Image contains 3 vignettes. The left vignette depicts a woman holding up a naked baby by its left foot. The center vignette depicts a four-story building with its right half fallen in and a seemingly undamaged two-story building next to it. The right vignette depicts a servant girl leaving a house with a trunk on her back and a Bible in her hand. Under each vignette is text further describing each scene. "Scene on Bush Street. Wreck of Building S. E. Corner of Third and Mission Streets. Scene on O'Farrell Street."--text, below image. Below the image is text describing the events of the earthquake that occurred on October 8th, 1865. This text continues onto the next page of the sheet. Paper color: buff.
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Image of a high view of San Francisco from the west looking toward Yerba Buena Island. The harbor is filled with ships. "J. Clark."--text, below image. Paper color: buff.
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Image is of a view from Russian Hill looking east to the harbor and Yerba Buena Island. Telegraph Hill is to the left, though Baird notes that it seems to be too far in that direction. Broadway and Vallejo Streets are in the center. "T. Armstrong. Victor Hoffman."--text, within image, bottom center and bottom right. Paper color: buff.
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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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Image of town buildings, the harbor with several ships in it to the left, the hills in the background, and several tents and small figures in the foreground. Buildings and places of particular interest are numbered in the image, and these numbers correspond to a list beneath the image. "Drawn and Engraved by Thomas Armstrong, in the Fall of 1849, and re-published by A. Rosenfield, (late of Hutchings and Rosenfield), No. 602 Montgomery Street, near Clay, San Francisco."--text, below image. Baird notes that the topography and details of the image are incorrect, and that this is apparently an issue of the early 1860's and not 1849. Paper color: buff.
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Image is of an empty lot, surrounded by the Vigilance Committee in formation, with bodies hanging to the left of the lot from Fort Vigilance. The view is "taken from Cor. of Davis & Commercial."--text, below image. "Pub. by Britton & Rey."--text, below image. Paper color: buff.
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