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  Scene on the Prairie, Monday Night  
Scene on the Prairie, Monday Night The Waud Drawings
The dazed refugees huddle together in the surreal night lit by the city's incandescence. This drawing became the basis of the cover illustration of Every Saturday a few weeks later.


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The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
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