The links below provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in Chronicling America. You can further explore the topic of the "Great Boston Fire of 1872" using the following search strategies:

• Use the following terms in combination, proximity, or as a phrase:
  Boston, fire, flames, great, second Chicago
• Use a specific date range if looking for articles for a particular event in order to narrow your results. To narrow your results for this topic, search between:
  November 9 - November 16, 1872
• Be aware that newspapers at the time often compared the Great Boston Fire to the Great Chicago Fire that occurred a year prior, in 1871, referring to it as the: Second Chicago