3-047-111 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Great Fire at Boston: ruins of the building where the fire originated, 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...[View of] the corner building of Summer-street and Kingston-street, in which the fire began on the Saturday evening, and from which it 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.