The burning of Chicago
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- Created Date
- 1871
- Description
Print depicting the Great Fire of 1871. It reads: The Burning of Chicago. This terrible conflagration commenced on Sunday evening Oct. 8th, 1871, and continued until stopped by the rain on Tuesday Morning, Oct. 10th, consuming the whole of the business portion of the City, all the Public Buildings, hotels, newspaper offices and rail road depots and extending over an area of five square miles. It is estimated that upward of 500 lives were lost 1...
- Creator
Currier & Ives (publisher)
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Visual works (works)
Prints (visual works)
Great Fire (1871 : Chicago, Ill.)
Ruins
Fires (events)
Sailing ships
Ships
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- image
- Format
- Color lithographs
- Rights
- No known copyright restrictions
- Chicago citation style
- Currier & Ives (publisher). The burning of Chicago. 1871. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_pp/id/52. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Currier & Ives (publisher), (1871) The burning of Chicago. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_pp/id/52
- MLA citation style
- Currier & Ives (publisher). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_pp/id/52>.