Sujet

Ruins of Chicago after the Fire: Crosby Opera House, 1871. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Ruins of Chicago after the Fire: Crosby Opera House, 1871. Engraving from a photograph. 'The total amount of losses to the insurance companies was reckoned at sixty million dollars...The quantity of grain burnt was 1,600,000 bushels, leaving 5,000,000 bushels, in eleven warehouses, still intact. Half the stocks of pork and flour were destroyed, and a large quantity of lumber, coal, leather, groceries, and clothing stuffs. It is estimated that "the city has suffered a loss altogether of not less than 20 per cent, or more than 25 per cent, on her total assets, real and personal".' From "Illustrated London News", 1871.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A61_373

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NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

6,8Mo (638,6Ko) / 15,8cm x 10,8cm / 1870 x 1276 (300dpi)

Mots clés

building buildings destruction arts country entertainment art fire British damage damaged ruins ruin opera Opera House Chicago Illinois location disaster debris rubble century Britain after catastrophe newspapers press print concept ruined B&W aftermath engraved engraving United States of America 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century American America USA The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper united states Unknown Great Chicago Fire débris 19th-century The Illustrated London News