The Great fire at Chicago. Scene in Court-House Square - the public buildings in flames / from sketch by our Chicago correspondent – Vintage Wall Art
(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 Great fire at Chicago. Scene in Court-House Square - the public buildings in flames / from sketch by our Chicago correspondent comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Great fire at Chicago. Scene in Court-House Square - the public buildings in flames / from sketch by our Chicago correspondent
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Court-House Square, in the middle of downtown Chicago, is the setting here, with the public buildings in flames and crowds gathered in the open space around them. The wood engraving was based on a sketch by the magazine's Chicago correspondent and ran in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper on October 28, 1871, about three weeks after the fire broke out on October 8. The blaze destroyed more than 3 square miles of the city and left roughly 100,000 people homeless. Seeing it in a New York weekly shows how quickly readers across the country received images of the disaster.
| Created / published | 1871 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1870-1880.Wood engravings 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1871 Oct. 28, p. 101. |
| Subjects | Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871. Fires--Illinois--Chicago--1870-1880. Disasters--Illinois--Chicago--1870-1880. Crowds--Illinois--Chicago--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,308 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-186013 |
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