Sujet

The Great Fire at Boston: Summer-Street, looking towards the harbour, 1872. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Great Fire at Boston: Summer-Street, looking towards the harbour, 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... the fire began...[in a] corner building of Summer-street and Kingston-street...on the Saturday evening, and...spread very rapidly, first along Summer-street, then across the whole width of that part of the town, in a north-easterly direction, Franklin-street and Federal-street, with the streets adjacent to them, being soon wrapt in flames'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A06_217

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

5,9Mo (582,0Ko) / 9,9cm x 15,0cm / 1171 x 1768 (300dpi)

Mots clés

building buildings people male man men destruction arts art guy 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 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown James débris Black 19th-century The Illustrated London News Great Boston Fire of 1872 James Wallace Black J.W. Black J.W. James Black James Wallace