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Chicago in flames: Scene at Randolph Street Bridge – Vintage 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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Few places in the Great Chicago Fire capture its chaos like the Randolph Street Bridge, which crossed the Chicago River in the city's downtown core. The fire that began on October 8, 1871, leapt the river and pushed residents, goods, and wagons toward the bridges as they tried to escape the flames. Currier & Ives, the New York firm known for popular sensational views of American life, issued this hand-colored lithograph a year or more after the disaster, when the fire had become a national story. Its bright colors and crowded foreground made the catastrophe easy to read and sell to a public that followed the rebuilding of the city.

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 scan1,686 × 1,338 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174218

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