Great fire at St. Louis, Mo.: thursday night May 17th – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Great fire at St. Louis, Mo.: thursday night May 17th. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Great fire at St. Louis, Mo.: thursday night May 17th
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The Thursday night of May 17, 1849, fire that this print depicts began aboard the steamboat *Malta* at the St. Louis levee and spread through the crowded riverfront warehouses and moored steamboats along the Mississippi. It went on to consume much of the downtown commercial district, destroying hundreds of buildings. New York printer Nathaniel Currier issued the view soon afterward, one of many lithographs that gave the public dramatic images of disasters at a time when news pictures were eagerly bought. The city was also still struggling with a cholera epidemic that year.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1849. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2837 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,206 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110555 |
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