Map shading the district burnt in the great fire

1884

Map shading the district burnt in the great fire

A plan shading the blocks destroyed when fire swept the young city over two days in May, drawn for Hubert Howe Bancroft's History of California. Fires repeatedly levelled San Francisco's timber-built centre during its first years, and maps like this were used to record the extent of each loss.

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