1877 View of The Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre from Illustrated London News

11.5" x 16" newsprint Lithographic sketch in fine condition. Likely some very minor chips at papers edge from age and storage but not effecting image. A newspaper page from an annual bound edition covering events of the day. The primary source of information for most Americans at the time were illustrated Newspapers being published in the major US cities like this example covering :

The Burning of the Brooklyn Theater , a devastation of local community with the death of more than 300 attendees described