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Chicago in flames: Scene at Randolph Street Bridge – Historic Photo Reproduction

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 Chicago 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 images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Chicago in flames: Scene at Randolph Street Bridge. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The Randolph Street Bridge was one of the crowded escape routes during the Great Chicago Fire of October 1871, when residents crossed the Chicago River as flames spread through the city. This hand-colored lithograph, published by Currier & Ives in New York sometime between 1872 and 1874, shows that chaotic scene in bright color. It was one of many prints the firm issued about the disaster, which destroyed much of the city's central business district within two days.

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 scan1,536 × 1,131 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-106172

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