. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. 4 o. / Ml£E- Map Showing San Francisco in 1849 Dotted Lines Show Present Streets beyond Old Shore Line 19(. THE DAMAGE BY THE EARTHQUAKE year ago would have shown heavy brick buildingsas far out as the main line of ships at the right. The picture at the bottom of the same pageshows the upper portion of the same inlet. The beachin the center of the picture is Montgomery street;the two streets running up the hill are Clay andWashington respectively; they are so marked
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. 4 o. / Ml£E- Map Showing San Francisco in 1849 Dotted Lines Show Present Streets beyond Old Shore Line 19(. THE DAMAGE BY THE EARTHQUAKE year ago would have shown heavy brick buildingsas far out as the main line of ships at the right. The picture at the bottom of the same pageshows the upper portion of the same inlet. The beachin the center of the picture is Montgomery street;the two streets running up the hill are Clay andWashington respectively; they are so marked in theoriginal engraving, which was made in 1849. Southward, between Rincon Hill and thePotrero Hills, a similar inlet extended as far west asthe lower end of Eighth street. Even now Channelstreet is a waterway as far as Seventh. Beyond thisinlet one arm of a salt marsh stretched as far as thepresent site of the Postoffice, at Seventh andMission. By 1850 San Francisco began to grow out overYerba Buena Cove. Wharves projected out on thestreet lines; stores and shacks sprung up besidethem. A thousand people lived in houses on st
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