Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 102

Price Realized: $ 540
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
PUBLISHED ON THE DAY OF THE EARTHQUAKE (CALIFORNIA.) Alameda Daily Argus. 4 pages, 22 x 15 inches, on one sheet; brittle with moderate wear. Alameda, CA, 18 April 1906
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Published just across the bay from San Francisco, this evening edition includes several eye-witness reports of the massive earthquake and its aftermath. "Herman Rissman returned from San Francisco at 1 o'clock and the story he tells beggars description. . . . He confirms the reports that San Francisco is doomed."