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The Masonic Temple, Dearborn Street, 1871 (Harper's Weekly)

The Losses by the Fire
From Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin, Chicago and the Great Conflagration (1871)
(800 words)

Chicago by Moonlight
from James W. Sheahan and George T. Upton, The Great Conflagration (1871)
(1500 words)



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The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
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