GENERAL INFO
Overview
October 7, 1871 Fire
Equipment
Aftermath
Damage
TBD
FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS
Harper’s Weekly
Harper’s Weekly (A Journal of Civilization) was an American political magazine based in New York. Published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916, it featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects, and humor, alongside illustrations. It carried extensive coverage of the American Civil War, including many illustrations of events from the war.
Chicago In Ashes — October 28, 1871
Graphic Account by John R. Chapin — October 28, 1871
Chicago in Ruins — November 4, 1871
The Ruined Churches in Chicago — November 11, 1871
The Ruins of Chicago — November 11, 1871
Bird’s Eye View Before and During the Fire — October 21 & 28, 1871
Homeless Citizens Taking Refuge From the Flames Among the Ruins — 1872
Chicago Fire Department — December 19, 1874
Every Saturday
Every Saturday (1866–1874) was an American literary magazine published in Boston, Massachusetts. It was edited by Thomas Bailey Aldrich and published by Ticknor and Fields (1866–1868); Fields, Osgood, & Co. (mid-1868–1870); James R. Osgood & Co. (1871–1873); and H. O. Houghton & Co. (1874). Every Saturday featured work by C. G. Bush, Wilkie Collins, F. O. C. Darley, Charles Dickens, J.W. Ehninger, Sol Eytinge Jr., Harry Fenn, Alfred Fredericks, Thomas Hardy, J.J. Harley, W.J. Hennessy, Winslow Homer, Augustus Hoppin, Ralph Keeler, S.S. Kilburn, Granville Perkins, W.L. Sheppard, Alfred Tennyson, Alfred Waud and others.
The Great Fire in Chicago — November 4, 1871
Newsboy Crying the News of the Chicago Fire
Photographer: Oscar Gustave Rejlander, 1871
The Chicago Tribune
Letter from Horace White, Chicago Tribune, to Murat Halstead, Editor of The Cincinnati Commercial—Published in that newspaper, October 14, 1871.
National & International Newspapers
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper
Kellogg & Bulkeley Lithographs
Currier & Ives
Newspapers
The Illustrated London News
The Ruins
Jules Emile Saintin
Burnt District Maps
Bird’s Eye Views of the Fire
Jex Bardwell’s Photographs of the Ruins
Views of the Burnt District
Chicago Panoramas After the Fire
Chicago Graphic
O’Leary’s Cottage
Chicago Fire Cyclorama
Cincinnati Soup House
Julia Lemos—Refugees Gathered at Menomonee and Wells
State House on Fire During the Great Chicago Fire
Erie Ferry in New York City
Chicago Fire Department
Homeless Citizens Taking Refuge
History of the Great Conflagration
