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This web site is divided into two major parts. The Great Chicago Fire
covers the history of the city in the nineteenth century, concentrating on the
fire and the years immediately following. The Web of Memory considers
how the fire has been remembered over time, by eyewitnesses, journalists,
artists, historians, photographers, poets, civic leaders, public commemorations,
and Chicago Historical Society exhibitions. Each of these two divisions is
broken up into chapters, eleven in all. Each chapter consists of these three
sections:
Navigation Buttons
Buttons are used throughout this web site to help you navigate. Red buttons,
such as the Essay, Galleries, and Library buttons shown above, let you navigate
within a chapter. Blue buttons, which are typically found at the bottom of
pages, let you navigate between chapters or go back to the Table of Contents,
Guest Book, Overview, and other top level pages. Gray buttons are
not active.
Arrow buttons are used in the Essays, Galleries, and Library texts to go from
page to page. Here are some (unlinked) examples of navigational
buttons:
Note the "Gallery" button is distinct from the "Galleries" button: it appears on individual images in a Gallery section, and leads to the list of contents for that Gallery. The "Galleries" button leads to the guide to all the Galleries in the chapter. Hypertext Hypertext links (text you can click on to go to a new page) appear on many pages, and particularly in the Gallery sections. We recommend that you turn off the underlining of hypertext in your browser and rely on the color of the hypertext to guide you. Unless you override our settings, you will see unvisited links in red and visited links in blue. Table of Contents The two parts of this web site, The Great Chicago Fire and The Web of Memory, each has a separate Table of Contents. On nearly all pages there is a Contents button at the bottom of the page which will take you right to the Table of Contents for the appropriate part. There is also a Detailed Contents page which lists the pages in the web site and provides links to each of them. Each Table of Contents has a link to the Detailed Contents page. |
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The Essays, written by curator Carl Smith, establish
and analyze the context of the specific contents of the Galleries and Library
for each chapter. From each essay page, you can enter the Galleries and Library
for the chapter.
The Galleries contain a large number of visual materials and
historical artifacts--photographs, lithographs, posters, broadsides, and a wide
variety of objects--accompanied by detailed captions prepared by the curator.
For each chapter, a Galleries guide page introduces several
thematic collections of images. From the guide page, select any Gallery you wish.
This will take you to a list of the contents of that Gallery. From each contents page, you can access specific images
directly. You may also move through the images in sequence using the navigation arrows
at the top of each captioned page.
The Libraries present primary source texts appropriate to each
chapter. Each Library contains a brief guide to its contents. From
each Library guide page, choose the text that you wish to read. Each text is
headed with a short introduction. As in the Galleries, you may move between items
in sequence.
