1906 US Fire Reduced 2,00,000 Books To Ashes In Library. 1 Has Now Returned
When a massive fire swept through San Francisco in 1906hundreds of thousands of library books were lost forever. Now, more than 100 years later, a single surviving volume has resurfaced. Randall Schwed found ‘Echoes of the Foot-Hills’ listed on an online marketplace for $35. He donated the book to the Mechanics’ Institute library in December…