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London Newsboy Selling Pall Mall Gazette Featuring The Chicago Fire, 1871 (Studio portrait by Oscar Gustav Rejlander)

"...the adamantine bulwarks of hell..."
from the Chicago Evening Post of October 18, 1871
(1000 words)

The Silver Lining of the Cloud
from Harper's Weekly of October 28, 1871
(570 words)

Chicago in Distress
from Frederick Law Olmsted, "Chicago in Distress," The Nation (November 9, 1871)
(5160 words)

A Night of Terror & Sympathy and Relief
from Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin, Chicago and the Great Conflagration (1871)
("Night of Terror" -- 1900 words)
("Sympathy and Relief" -- 800 words)



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The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
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