Barnum's Museum ablaze, July 13, 1865, artist's impression, zoomable image

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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 12, 2015.
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engraving
Original caption
The great conflagration in New York City, July 13 - total destruction of Barnum's Museum with its million of rare and wonderful curiosities (The accumulation of the past fifty years) together with twenty adjoining buildings - Loss $2,000,000
Source citation
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, July 29, 1865, 296.
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