Sujet

The Great Fire at Boston: Pearl-Street, 1872. Creator: Unknown.

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The Great Fire at Boston: Pearl-Street, 1872. Illustration of damage after '...the great fire, which destroyed nearly all the commercial business part of Boston, United States, on Saturday, the 9th, and Sunday, the 10th November...Pearl-street...was the greatest boot and shoe mart in the world, almost every house being occupied by importers or dealers in that class of goods. [The view], from photographs and sketches that have arrived by the last mail...is that looking down this street, towards Pearl-street Wharf and Liverpool Wharf. The other streets...were chiefly devoted to the trade in "dry goods" an American term, meaning the various wares of cloth or thread, woollen, cotton, linen, and silk, which we should call drapery and haberdashery. Their entire stocks were consumed, with the premises, to the value of nearly £20,000,000 altogether; but a large amount was insured, and some part belonged to foreign owners, so that the loss does not fall on Boston alone'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A06_216

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

6,0Mo (596,0Ko) / 10,0cm x 15,1cm / 1177 x 1781 (300dpi)

Mots clés

building buildings people male job man men destruction footwear arts industry art guy occupation fire clothes British boot boots industrial damage damaged ruins photography camera ruin dress Boston Massachusetts location disaster debris rubble century Britain profession firefighter firefighters catastrophe emergency services fireman firemen newspapers press clothing print concept ruined APPAREL B&W aftermath engraved engraving United States of America 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News plate camera TGN wood engraving ILN street newspaper Unknown James débris Black Pearl Street 19th-century Carriage boot clothing & dress fashion & clothing The Illustrated London News Great Boston Fire of 1872 James Wallace Black J.W. Black J.W. James Black James Wallace