san francisco fire

View of the West Side of Montgomery Street, From Washington to Pacific
circa 1855

From Fardon's "San Francisco Album," published 1856, an extremely important work which was the first book of photographs published of any American city. Fardon was an early...

1906

This is an oil painting on canvas showing the Fire in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. A row of buildings appears in the foreground across the bottom of the composition. In the distance...

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