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Creative Destruction
Creative Destruction Touched by Fire
What the advancing inferno did not destroy, it still irreversibly changed. These artifacts demonstrate the fire's ability to take the simplest things and fuse them into strikingly appealing aesthetic objects. Clockwise, from the left, glass marbles, screws, washers, and files.


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The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
Copyright © 1996 by the Chicago Historical Society and the Trustees of Northwestern University
Last revised 10-8-96