Book finds its way home 120 years after a library burned down

Book finds its way home 120 years after a library burned down

Inside a charred book, pages dotted in soot stains tell the story of how San Francisco rose to the epicenter of a gold rush. Barely escaping the 1906 earthquake, this book should’ve burned completely. The city’s oldest continually operating library presumed it did. After all, almost 200,000 volumes...

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