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mantel and rolled under a couch unharmed. General
Funston of the Presidio sent a wagon to help save the store's treasures. While the store survived the earthquake, it was dynamited to help stop the great fire. The store relocated temporarily to 1744 California Street. The new store was at 550 Sutter Street. It had a charming courtyard, fountain, and wrought iron gate. It still stands.
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When he came down with tuberculosis, the family sent him to
California to get well (or die). He travelled by way of New York where his brother-in-law Fred Keppel had a well-known art store. Fred Keppel dealt primarily in etchings as he was color blind. He gave William a consignment of etchings to
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In the Panic of 1893, people were just not buying fine art for
Christmas presents. Vickery suggested to his customers, "why not remember them with a lovely Christmas card?" He got his Haddan nieces (who lived next door) to mount up as Christmas cards a large collection of post cards from the
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In March 1891, and again in 1893 and 1895, William
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William was born 16 March 1851, Ballydehob, County Cork, Ireland to Paul and Mary Anne Levis
Vickery. Paul Vickery died young and Mary Anne supported the family by successfully running the family store in Skibbereen. Paul and Mary Anne had ten children:
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Frederick Paul
Vickery (1879–1965) Professor of Geology at U.C.L.A. and Sacramento State and later Director of the Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, and the San Francisco Art Center at Montalvo, Saratoga.
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After establishing himself in
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