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1872
Stereo views: Mass.: Boston: Boston Fire 1872: Washington St.
GUSN-196046
This stereo view shows the ruins of William White & Company, "Banner of Light" office, and the J. W. Plimpton Co. on Washington Street, after the Great Boston Fire of November 9 and 10, 1872. The booksellers and publisher, Wm. White & Co., and the silk and straw goods and artificial flowers store, J. W. Plimpton & Co., are listed at 158 Washington Street in the 1871 Boston City Directory. The "Banner of Light" was a spiritualist weekly periodical that was published from 1857 to 1907.
fires (events)
disasters
ruins
events
clothing stores
stereographs
photographs
DigitalID 001105
AccessID 1400
Other identifier HNEDID-001105
1 stereograph
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.04.01.USMA.0170.0630.003
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Soule, John P. (Photographer)
stereographs
photographs
Banner of Light
William White & Company
J.W. Plimpton & Co.
Great Fire, Boston, Mass., 1872
Washington Street (Boston, Mass.)
Architectural photography
Item
Ruins of Great Fire in Boston : Nov. 9th and 10th, 1872
Stereo views: Mass.: Boston: Boston Fire 1872: Washington St.
The Boston Directory, 1871, 562 and 759.
Mott, Frank Luther. A History of American Magazines, 1850-1865, v. 2, 209.
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