Heading: (California Letter Sheets)
Author:
Title: San Francisco, After the Fire of June 22d, 1851 (Published by the Times and Transcript.)
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:
Date Published: 1851
Description:

Wood engraving, measuring approx. 15.5x28 cm (6¼x11"), on single sheet 20.5x31 cm (8x12¼").

Primitive view of burnt area adjacent to Portsmouth Square; the only identifiable building still standing is the El Dorado. People are wandering about. In the catalogue of the Clifford Collection of California Lettersheets, Dorothy Sloan notes that "Both Henry Clifford and Warren Howell considered this to be an unrecorded pictorial letter sheet, although Baird does not list the Times and Transcript as publisher of any other letter sheets." Not listed in Baird. Clifford Collection 355.

A few light fox marks, fine or nearly so.