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1820 A Visual Record
Included here are a child's drawing of his family escaping, a hand-made map of the burnt district, and an oil painting completed almost forty years after the fact. The full texts of accompanying fire narratives by each of these artists are in the Library.

The Waud Drawings
Six sketches taken on the scene.

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The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
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