Books & Manuscripts, including Americana

14 x 10 in. printed newspaper in four columns, headed "Chicago in Flames." (Folds, toning, minor soiling, creases along edges, corner pinholes).

The Chicago Evening Post was a daily newspaper founded in 1865 and continuing to run until 1875, when it became the Post & Mail. The present issue was printed while the embers of the Great Chicago Fire were still smoldering, and its contents detail relief efforts and news of the event, as well as an announcement that, due to the destruction of the Evening Post offices, operations would be moved to another location.

[With]: A group of 5 broadsides, handbills, and sheet music related to the Great Fire, ca. 1871, comprising:

1) The Great Fires at the West! Hoboken, NJ, 18 October 1871. Handbill calling for donations of clothing, food, or money to victims of the Great Chicago Fire. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. Folds, mild toning.

2) Grand Concert...The Entire Proceeds to be Given for the Benefit of the Sufferers by the Late Terrible Fires. [New Haven, CT], 20 October 1871. Broadside, 12 x 6 in. Significant toning at top and bottom, some spotting.

3) Grand Concert Will Be Given at Wilhelm's Opera House...for the Benefit of the Sufferers in the Late Fires at Chicago and Wisconsin. [Portsmouth, OH], 24 October 1871. Bifolium, 7 x 4 1/2 in. Folds, toning, minor soiling.

4) Root, George M. From the Ruins, Our City Shall Rise! Chicago: Root & Cady, [1871]. Folio. Original printed wraps (spotting, losses to edges, minor soiling).

5) Root, George M. Passing Through the Fire. Cleveland: S. Barnard's Sons, 1871. Folio. Original printed wraps (spotting, minor soiling).