Civil War Era Newspaper Great Fire Portland Maine. Atchison Kansas 1866 Whittier

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Civil War Era Newspaper Great Fire Portland Maine. Atchison Kansas 1866 Whittier:
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And we encourage Best OffersHarper\'s WEEKLY, New York, July 28, 1866
Much of this issue is filled with the disastrous 1866 Great Fire in Portland, Maine
Five years before the Great Chicago Fire, this was the greatest fire yet seen in an American city
10,000 people were made homeless and 1,800 buildings were burned to the groundHere\'s a description of the images shown above:
1. Front Page of the Newspaper
Views of \'Tents Among the Ruins\' & \'Distributing Food to Citizens at the Old City Hall\'
2. Front Page Masthead Illustration
3. The Great Fire in Portland - The Post Office & Surrounding Ruins
4. The Great Fire in Portland - Ruins of the City Hall
5. Double Page Centerfold - Several Views:
\'Previous View of the District Destroyed\', \'View from Fore & Middle Streets
Looking Toward the Post Office\', \'General View of the Ruins from Munjoy Hill\',
\'Discovering Dead Bodies\', and \'Working Party in the Ruins\'
6. Double Page Centerfold, Left side
7. Double Page Centerfold, Right side
8. Early View of Commercial Street, Atchison, Kansas
9. The Heroine of Frederick, Maryland, Barbara Frietchie & the 1863 poem that John Greenleaf Whittier
wrote about her. \"Shoot if you must this old gray head, but spare your country\'s Flag\" (see Wikipedia).
Also an image of \"Marks of Punishment Inflicted on Colored Servant in Richmond Virginia\"
10. Crown Prince Frederic William of Prussia & Italian Generals
11. Rear page cartoon titled \'The Perils of Blue Fishing\'Complete in 16 pages.
For extra protection, this item will be shipped in an archival folderAll items that are offered by The Chronicles are from a large collection that we acquired from an avid collector & dealer of Scarce Paper Americana in the late 1900s. They include newspapers, documents, books, maps and images, with a focus on the civil war era and before. All items are genuine originals. We do not handle copies or reproductions of any items Unlike modern paper items, early newspapers & documents made before 1880
generally remain in very nice condition even after centuries of aging. The reason for this is that these early paper items were made with pure cotton & linen, whereas modern paper is made with wood fiber that often rapidly discolors and gets weak & brittle