Set Reminder2024-04-18 12:00:002024-04-18 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : How History Unfolds on Paper: Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part IX https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/how-history-unfolds-on-paper-choice-selections-from-the-eric-c-caren-collection-part-ix-21908 This ninth sale from Eric Caren's archives offers a bird's eye view of history from a printed, manuscript, and photographic perspective.
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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).