Sujet

Explosion of a Steam-Boiler in Hague-Street, New York, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

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Explosion of a Steam-Boiler in Hague-Street, New York, 1850. Scene showing the '...explosion of a boiler of a steam-engine in a machine shop, crushing the building...into a vast mass of ruins in less than one minute. About fifty persons, it is said, were killed and sixty wounded, by this awful catastrophe, the building being occupied by several workmen... the whole building, which was six stories in height, was actually lifted from its foundation to a height of six feet and, when it reached that elevation, it tumbled down, crushing in its ruins a vast number...Immediately after the explosion, fire burst from the promiscuous heap of bricks and beams, and human bodies were seen with legs and arms sticking out - some of them dead, some living. The fire alarm for the district was first given, and then a general alarm, which brought the firemen from all parts of the city to the scene of desolation'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A33_239

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NA

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

59,7Mo (4,7Mo) / 42,0cm x 35,6cm / 4960 x 4207 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building New York industry country fire flame flames British Central America dramatic death industrial explosion exploding location disaster Victorian century Britain catastrophe newspapers press concept workshop B&W new york state machine shop engraved engraving United States of America 19th century black & white black and white B W deaths nineteenth century America USA The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN ILN outside newspaper united states Unknown 19th-century