Great fire at St. Louis, Mo.: thursday night May 17th – Antique 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.)
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Great fire at St. Louis, Mo.: thursday night May 17th
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On the night of Thursday, May 17, 1849, fire broke out among the steamboats tied up along the St. Louis levee and spread into the riverfront warehouses and commercial blocks. The blaze destroyed a large part of the city's business district and many of the steamboats that carried its trade. Currier's lithograph shows the scene in the dramatic style his New York firm used for disasters, with fire engines and crowds struggling against the flames. The fire came in the same year cholera was ravaging St. Louis, which made 1849 a hard year for the city.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1849. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2837 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,063 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174734 |
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