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Four (of many more) contemporary renditions of the origin of the fire, in which Mrs.
O'Leary is a hapless comic figure. The first three images verge on slapstick, as this
caricature of an Irish matron is sent sprawling while other livestock in the barn scatter in
fright. Upper left: lithograph by L.V.H. Crosby, 1871 (H.M. Kinsley, Publisher).
Upper Right: print by W.O. Mull, ca. 1872 . Lower left: stereograph by J.A. Pierce &
Co., 1872. Lower right: lithograph (with captions in English and German) by Kellogg &
Buckeley, ca. 1872.
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A Star is Born 