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Burnt District Maps


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Burnt District Map
The R. P. Studley Company
St. Louis


This is one of a series of lithographs depicting the fire that were marketed by the Kellogg & Bulkeley Company of Hartford, Connecticut, which was one of many publishers that attempted to capitalize on the fascination with the Great Chicago Fire, which reached across the Atlantic as well as throughout the nation.


1871 Map of the Burnt District produced by New York clothier Freeman & Burr.
Scale: 1:29,300


Gaylord Watson. Chicago Fire Map, 1871


From “The Great Conflagration of Chicago: Its Past, Present and Future” by Associate Editors of the Chicago Tribune, James W. Sheahan and George P. Upton.


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