How History Unfolds on Paper: Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part IX
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Lot 198
[GREAT CHICAGO FIRE]. New-York Tribune. Map of the burned d...
Estimate: $300 - $500
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[GREAT CHICAGO FIRE]. New-York Tribune. Map of the burned district in Chicago. New York, 10 October 1871. Vol. 31, No. 9,520. 4pp., large folio (617 x 470 mm), marginal spotting and browning, few tears in margins, old fold. ?CHICAGO IN ASHES... CHICAGO EVIDENTLY DOOMED?. On the front page is a rare wood-engraved map of the parts of Chicago that were burned during the fire. Offered with the pre-fire newspaper, The Chicago Republican, August 15, 1867, with home listings on p. 8 (presumably many of those houses didn?t survive the fire).
