Showing posts with label fire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fire. Show all posts

Saturday, December 30, 2017

“That’s Every Bit of Wood There Is,” He Quavered (1885)

Ada Carleton Stoddard, “Snowed-In,” Harper’s Young People 6 (January 27, 1885): 200.

Thursday, December 14, 2017

Fighting the Fire with Snowballs (1886)

Charles Barnard, “The Great Snowball Fight,” Illustrated by George Inness, Jr., St. Nicholas 13 (March 1886): 345.

Friday, October 23, 2015

Daring Rescue at a Tenement Fire with the Searchlight’s Aid (1908)

“Daring Rescue at a Tenement Fire, with the Searchlight’s Aid,” Drawn by Arthur E. Jameson, Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly Newspaper 145 (February 6, 1908): cover. 

Monday, June 29, 2015

In Walks the Little Dog, Says “Pussy! Are You There?” (1922)

Beatrix Potter, Cecil Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes (New York: Frederick Warne and Company, 1922), 39.

Sunday, January 11, 2015

I Made a Fire, and by Boiling Snow Made My Kettle (1896)

John MacDougall,  Saddle, Sled and Snowshoe: Pioneering on the Saskatchewan in the Sixties, Illustrations by J.E. Laughlin (Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham, 1896), frontispiece.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Bigelow House & Pacific Hotel (1871)

Bigelow House & Pacific Hotel after great Chicago fire.
Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin. Chicago and the Great Conflagration. Illustrations by Capin and Gullick. (Cincinnati and New York: C.F. Vent, 1871).