The Great Chicago Fire

(untitled picture of fire at harbour)

Reference Number:- Godden Number:- Sprake Number:- Radley Number:-
gc 686 1018 No Postcards listed by Sprake listed
 

Silk postcard with picture of a harbour surrounded by burning warehouses

 
Words:
Printed at top of card:-
REAL SILK WOVEN POST CARDS.
 
Woven on Silk:-
{picture of harbour surrounded by burning warehouses}
 
 
Size:
card:
cm long by cm deep

silk:
cm long by cm deep

Comments:
The fire which engolfed Chicago occured on 8 - 10 October, 1871.
The printed surround of the postcard above is one of the Grant earliest designs. This card has been seen with a postmark cancellation stamp on the reverse, dated to 18 February 1904.

 
 


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