Bird's Eye View of Chicago as It Was before the Great Fire, 1871

BirdÕs Eye View of Chicago as It Was before the Great Fire, 1871

Bird's Eye View of Chicago as It Was before the Great Fire, 1871
(Harper's Weekly, drawing by Theodore R. Davis) Bird's-Eye Views of the City

As part of its extensive coverage of the disaster, Harper's Weekly, the leading illustrated national magazine of contemporary cultural life, included one more overview of pre-fire Chicago. Harper's resourcefully used this as a basis of its image of Chicago aflame.


	Bird's Eye View of Chicago as It Was before the Great Fire, 1871 (Harper's Weekly, drawing by Theodore R. Davis)	Bird's-Eye Views of the City
	As part of its extensive coverage of the disaster, Harper's Weekly, the leading illustrated national magazine of contemporary cultural life, included one more overview of pre-fire Chicago. Harper's resourcefully used this as a basis of its image of Chicago aflame.