[Rarebooks] FA: 1872 Great Fire in Boston

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Ending today on a major popular internet auction site. No reserves, because 
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Saturday evening, November 9, 1872 was quiet in Boston. In the commercial 
district along the waterfront in South Boston most of the buildings and 
warehouses had been shut up and locked, but down in the furnaces of a 
four-story granite building on Summer Street a stray spark from the furnace 
shot up an elevator shaft and started the greatest conflagration in 
Boston's history...

HISTORY OF THE GREAT FIRE IN BOSTON. NOVEMBER 9 and 10, 1872.  By Col. R.H. 
Conwell. Published by B.B. Russell in 1873. The Great Fire in Boston is not 
as famous as the Chicago Fire, but given Boston's relatively small size in 
1872, it was just as devastating. This history includes eyewitness 
accounts, before and after pictures, and a dramatic colored lithograph 
showing a large part of the city being consumed by flames.

& another Baystate item-

CAMBRIDGE SKETCHES BY CAMBRIDGE AUTHORS. Edited by Estelle M.H. Merrill. 
Published by the Cambridge Young Woman's Christian Association in 1896. An 
interesting compilation of essays on a variety of subjects including 
Cambridge schools in "Olden Tymes", "Tory Row" (Brattle Street), The 
Charles River, Harvard Square and (of course) Harvard University, 
Radcliffe, the Library, "Cambridge as a No-License (dry) City" (ye Gods!!), 
and much more.


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