The largest fire in the history of…

December 1851 CE

The largest fire in the history of the Library of Congress destroys thirty-five thousand books, about two–thirds of the Library's collection and two-thirds of Thomas Jefferson's original transfer, of which only two thousand books escape the flames, on December 22, 1851.

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