Ruins of Chicago after the Fire: Porter Palmer's Block; Field and Leiter's Stores, 1871. Creator: Unknown.

Ruins of Chicago after the Fire: Porter Palmer's Block; Field and Leiter's Stores, 1871. Creator: Unknown.

3-034-760 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Ruins of Chicago after the Fire: Porter Palmer's Block; Field and Leiter's Stores, 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.


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  1. Unknown, attributed to: :

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World North and Central America United States Illinois Cook Chicago

  1. 41 51 00 N , 087 39 00 W

Category Hierarchy

History & Politics Historical Events Disasters

Trade & Industry Manufacturing & Heavy Industry

Trade & Industry Shops & Markets

Locations & Buildings Other


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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 1737x1160
File Size : 1,968kb


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  1. ILN_1871_Page_449_h.jpg
  1. 1871
  1. 0580094567
  1. 3-034-760
  1. 3034760

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