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}

Printed at bottom of card:-


	W. H. GRANT & Co.		COVENTRY.

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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