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The Reading-Room of the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York - Discussing the news from Chicago, illustration from '
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The Reading-Room of the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York - Discussing the news from Chicago, illustration from 'Every Saturday', 1871 (engraving)
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American School, (19th century) / American
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Chicago History Museum, USA
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engraving
Date
1871 AD (C19th AD)
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The Fifth Avenue Hotel was, at the time of this engraving, the social centre for the elite of New York City. The "news from Chicago" that they are discussing is that of the Great Fire which ravaged the city in October 1871, destroying 3.3 square miles of downtown buildings and claiming hundreds of lives.

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