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Pro-Slavery Mob Kills an Editor:
On Nov. 7, 1837, a mob set fire to the Observer in Alton, Ill., because the editor, Rev. Elijah Parish Lovejoy, was an abolitionist. Three times, mobs wrecked Lovejoy's presses, but on this occasion, he defended his press and was shot to death.
Photojournalism Captures a Fire:
Louis-Jacques-Mandle Daguerre first produced images in 1837. In 1847, Hermann Blow and Carl Ferdinand Steizner took the earliest known news photo, left, using "daguerreotypes" to capture the ruins of Hamburg, Germany after a catastrophic fire. Engravers working on the first edition of The London Illustrated News concocted an imaginary view of the fire. |