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Bancroft Publishing House Destroyed by Fire

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 6, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 17.

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Bancroft Publishing House Destroyed by Fire

FRIDAY afternoon, April 30, the large printing and publishing establishment of A. L. Bancroft & Co., in San Francisco, was burned to the ground. The entire stock of books, printing material, and machinery, was destroyed, making a loss of about $1,000,000, on which there was $300,000 insurance. Bancroft's was the largest publishing house on the Coast, and its loss may be regarded as a calamity, not only to San Francisco, but to the whole Pacific Coast. Three lives were lost by the fire.