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The great fire at Boston: November 9th & 10th 1872 – Antique Wall Art

The great fire at Boston: November 9th & 10th 1872, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1872. — antique lithograph
The great fire at Boston: November 9th & 10th 1872, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1872.. Antique lithograph from the Boston National Historic Park collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The print shows the Great Boston Fire of November 9 and 10, 1872, which tore through the city's commercial district in downtown Boston. Fire companies from neighboring towns were called in, but the blaze spread for nearly two days across crowded streets of warehouses and offices before it was brought under control. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that produced inexpensive color lithographs of current events, issued the scene soon after, so the picture reflects how the disaster was presented to the public at the time.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1872.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1870-1880.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2834
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,128 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174629

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