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Newsboy Crying the News of the Chicago Fire; Oscar Gustave Rejlander, Photograph, 1871 (ichi-18329)

from the Chicago Evening Post of October 18, 1871

(1037 words)

from Harper's Weekly of October 28, 1871

(575 words)

from Frederick Law Olmsted, "Chicago in Distress," The Nation, November 9, 1871

(5131 words)

from Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin, Chicago and the Great Conflagration

(2782 words)

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