Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Chicago in Flames by Currier & Ives

Voting period ends on 18 Oct 2024 at 19:34:04 (UTC)

Reason: I saw this pop up in On This Day for Oct. 8 and think it's pretty good. This is a crop from this version, and I think an improvement, since the color plates didn't line up cleanly with the printed border. There's good detail in close up; what irregularities there are are aspects of the original print (that is, overprinting with successive color layers that often have hard edges). There is some mild browning on the paper itself, but the sepia tint to the bottom area is its own printed color, as is clear on the uncut version.
Articles in which this image appears: Great Chicago Fire, 1871
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/American
Creator: Original by Currier & Ives, exact author unknown; crop by GreenMeansGo