The burning of Chicago – Historic Reproduction
![The burning of Chicago, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1871. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/98/9827051f55ca-L.webp)
(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 The burning of Chicago. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The burning of Chicago
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The Currier & Ives lithograph titled "The Burning of Chicago" turns to the city's great fire of October 1871, which destroyed a large part of the city center over a few days and left many thousands homeless. Printed in New York that same year, the sheet was one of the quick, dramatic images the firm produced to meet public demand for news pictures of the disaster. Prints like this one reached households far from Illinois, where readers had only newspaper accounts to go on. The catalog entry that documents the sheet places it among the firm's lithographs of the 1870s, a body of work that shaped how Americans pictured events in their own time.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1871. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0823. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,115 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110320 |
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