![Panorama from New P.O. Building [looking to Liberty Square. Boston, Nov. 9 and 10, 1872. The Summer Street Fire.]](/api/proxy-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.getty.edu%2Fiiif%2Fimage%2F974576a8-56d2-478e-9f48-bbebcdf20bdf%2Ffull%2F808%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg)
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Panorama from New P.O. Building [looking to Liberty Square. Boston, Nov. 9 and 10, 1872. The Summer Street Fire.]
Creator
James Wallace BlackAmerican Photographer · 1825–1896
All works by this person →> Look at almost any photograph of a loved friend, and what do you see--nothing but a map, a face, but without soul; and [look at] the advantage the artist has in being able to put that expression in the face which is impossible to do with the camera, and [look at] how the public expects us to do for $5 in fifteen minutes what [a painter]... would charge $500 for doing, and take weeks of study. >
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- November 9-10, 1872
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 0d4e4de1-8213-44e4-bc12-98e238a903e5
What the image shows
The ruins of a city after a fire, showing charred buildings and debris.
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