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Onlookers outside of Old Trinity Church on Summer Street after the Boston Fire, 1872

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1872

GUSN

GUSN-225128

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Description

A small crowd of people stands in the street close to Old Trinity Church after the fire.

Details

Descriptive Terms

fires (events)
churches (buildings)
religious buildings
disasters
rubble
ruins
photographs
black-and-white prints (photographs)
albumen prints

Inscription

Boston Fire of 1872. (handwritten)

Additional Identification Number

James Wallace Black collection number 1
James Wallace Black photo number 15

Physical Description

1 photographic print : albumen, black-and-white, mounted ; 13 1/2 x 12 inches

Collection Code

PC013

Collection Name

James Wallace Black photographic collection of the Boston Fire, 1872

Reference Code

PC013.TMP.021

Image Dimensions

13 1/2 x 12 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Black, James Wallace, 1825-1896 (Photographer)

Material Type

photographs
black-and-white prints (photographs)
albumen prints

Subjects

Great Fire, Boston, Mass., 1872
Summer Street (Boston, Mass.)

Description Level

Item

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