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Birdseye View Before and During the Fire


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Bird’s Eye View of Chicago as It was before the Great Fire
Harper’s Weekly
21 October 1871
Pages 984-5
Sketch by Theodore R. Davis


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Chicago In Ruins
Harper’s Weekly
28 October 1871
Sketch by Theodore R. Davis

The City as seen from above Lake Michigan, erroneously showing flames from the Great Fire blowing to the south, rather than northward from De Koven Street.


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