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Ruined City Library

Ruins of the Masonic Temple; from Harper's Weekly, November 10, 1871 (ich-63125)

Ruins of the Masonic Temple; from Harper's Weekly, November 10, 1871 (ich-63125)

The Losses by the Fire

from Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin, Chicago and the Great Conflagration, 1871

(764 words)
Chicago by Moonlight

from James W. Sheahan and George T. Upton, The Great Conflagration, 1871

(1502 words)

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