The great fire at Boston: November 9th & 10th 1872 – Historic Print
(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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The great fire at Boston: November 9th & 10th 1872. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The great fire at Boston: November 9th & 10th 1872
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Unlike the many fire scenes on this board, this lithograph documents a specific event: the great fire that swept through downtown Boston on November 9 and 10, 1872. The blaze began in the city's commercial district and burned for about two days, destroying hundreds of buildings and causing losses estimated at tens of millions of dollars. Currier & Ives, the New York firm known for topical prints, issued this view the same year, so it reflects how quickly news of the disaster reached a national audience. The print is a useful record of how the public followed such catastrophes through pictures.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1872. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2834 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,074 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110319 |
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