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Chicago in flames: Scene at Randolph Street Bridge – Antique Photo Print

Chicago in flames: Scene at Randolph Street Bridge, [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1872 and 1874] — antique lithograph
Chicago in flames: Scene at Randolph Street Bridge, [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1872 and 1874]. Antique lithograph from the Fire Engines 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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A window into the past: Chicago in flames: Scene at Randolph Street Bridge, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Among the bridges that the Great Chicago Fire of October 1871 threatened, the one at Randolph Street crossed the South Branch of the Chicago River near the city's commercial core. New York publisher Currier & Ives produced this hand-colored lithograph a year or two after the disaster, when Chicago was still rebuilding. The fire burned for about two days, destroyed much of the central business district, and left roughly 100,000 residents homeless. Prints like this one turned the catastrophe into a dramatic public spectacle, and they remain a useful record of how Americans imagined the event from afar.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1872 and 1874]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenreLithographs Hand-colored 1850-1910.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1125.
SubjectsFires--Illinois--Chicago--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,464 × 1,185 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217886

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