![]() 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) | |