Beginning of the Great Fire, on DeKoven Street

Beginning of the Great Fire, on DeKoven Street

Photograph

Lovejoy & Foster

Maker
Edward Lovejoy, American; Henry C. Foster, American

Beginning of the Great Fire, on DeKoven Street

From Great Fire in Chicago


1871
Albumen silver prints
Image (each): 3 × 3 1/8 in. (7.6 × 8 cm)
Mount: 3 7/16 × 6 15/16 in. (8.7 × 17.7 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer, 1951
1981.7771.0001
Inscriptions Printed on mount on recto, LC: Lovejoy & Foster, 309 W. Randolph St.
Printed on mount on recto, RC: Great Fire in Chicago, Oct. 9, 1871.
Printed on mount on recto, BL: Beginning of the GREAT FIRE, On DeKoven St.

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