Sujet

The Great Fire at Boston: Milk-Street, looking from Washington-Street, 1872. Creator: Unknown.

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The Great Fire at Boston: Milk-Street, looking from Washington-Street, 1872. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. J. W. Black. 'We have now received photographs and sketches of the actual conflagration and its effects...They show the ruins left near where the fire was at last stopped on the Monday morning, about the corner of Washington-street and Milk-street, in close vicinity to the Post Office and the Old South Church...A little way down Milk-street, at the corner of Devonshire-street, is the superb new Post Office, an immense pile not yet completed, which has also narrowly escaped destruction. School-street, on the opposite side of Washington-street, leads to another new grand public building, the City Hall, which was erected seven or eight years ago, costing half a million dollars. Between Bromfield-street and Winter-street, a short distance westward, are the Music-Hall, the Lowell Institute, and other places of well-known resort, with the Tremont Temple, the Museum, and the principal theatres, not far off, all which would have been destroyed if the fire had spread beyond Washington-street'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A06_196

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

11,8Mo (1,1Mo) / 14,8cm x 20,0cm / 1752 x 2363 (300dpi)

Mots clés

building buildings destruction architecture archway arch arts art fire British damage damaged ruins ruin Boston Massachusetts disaster debris rubble century Britain catastrophe newspapers press print concept ruined B&W aftermath engraved engraving United States of America Architectural Feature 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN James Black newspaper Unknown débris 19th-century The Illustrated London News Great Boston Fire of 1872 James Wallace Black Black James J.W. Black Black J.W. Black James Wallace