"Destruction of the city of Hamburgh by fire", The Illustrated London News Volume 1, issue 1, May 14, 1842, pp. 1–2 (via Archive.org).
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Harry Braun and Manfred Gihl, Der große Hamburger Brand von 1842, Erfurt: Sutton, 2012, ISBN9783866809963, p. 19(in German).
Dirk Schubert, "The Great Fire of Hamburg, 1842: From Catastrophe to Reform", in Greg Bankoff, Uwe Lübken, and Jordan Sand, eds., Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World, Madison: University of Wisconsin, 2012, ISBN9780299283834, pp. 212–34, p. 215.
Wolfgang Poppelbaum, "Zur Geschichte der Hamburger Feuerkasse", in Claudia Schnurmann and Iris Wigger, eds., Tales of two cities: Hamburg & Chicago = Stadtgeschichten, Atlantic Cultural Studies 2, Berlin: Lit, 2006, ISBN9783825892548, pp. 15–22, p. 18. (in German).
Peter Borscheid, David Gugerli, and Tobias Straumann, ed. Harold James, The Value of Risk: Swiss Re and the History of Reinsurance, Oxford: Oxford University, 2013, ISBN9780199689804, p. 44.
Helmut Puff, Miniature Monuments: Modeling German History, Media and cultural memory 17, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2014, ISBN9783110303858, p. 20; Puff notes that the Hamburg Museum has a model depicting the spread of the fire.
