The great fire at St. John, N.B. June 20th 1877 – Historic Reproduction
(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: The great fire at St. John, N.B. June 20th 1877, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The great fire at St. John, N.B. June 20th 1877
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Few disasters of the 1870s drew as much attention in the United States as the fire that struck Saint John, New Brunswick, on June 20, 1877, and this lithograph records it under the plain title "The great fire at St. John, N.B." Saint John was a busy Atlantic port, and its wooden buildings and crowded streets let flames spread quickly through the commercial core. Currier & Ives, the New York firm known for its quickly produced prints of newsworthy events, issued the image within months of the blaze. Such prints gave readers far from the scene a dramatic view of a distant catastrophe, and they show how fire, and the engines sent to fight it, held a strong place in American popular imagery.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1877. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2836 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,144 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110341 |
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