3-047-113 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

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.