This is an amazing photograph from Wikimedia, near-panoramic in breadth, and incredibly detailed considering the fact that it was apparently shot by triggering a camera suspended beneath a kite! You can see individual people on the streets, and look at the beautiful old ships in the harbor; what appears to be chimneys in the burned-over section are actually building facades with the remainder gutted out behind them. I think that's the mint just to the right of center partway up the hill; there are some great stories about the employees staying there to protect the U.S. coinage during the fire, dodging molten lead dripping down on them from the roof.
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