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Chicago and the Great Conflagration ... With numerous illustrations, etc

Name: Chicago and the Great Conflagration ... With numerous illustrations, etc
Author: Elias Colbert

Elias Colbert · 1871 · Scanned text

164,827 words · about 11 h 33 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845

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Licence: PDM · British Library Digitised Books dataset db14 (doi 10.21250/db14) marks the OCR texts CC Public Domain Mark 1.0 (c. 1510-c. 1900 publications); text+metadata JSONL release doi 10.23636/r7w6-zy15 is CC0 1.0. Public Domain Mark is a status label, not a new copyright licence. · Digitised by the British Library (with Microsoft). Text: British Library Digitised Books, CC Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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Author: Elias Colbert
Language: English
Published: 1871
Length: 164,827 words · about 11 h 33 min
Sections: 31 reader sections
Source: British Library (000739126)
Text: Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Contents (31)

Front matter under 1 min
Introduction about 4 h 6 min
Chapter I. The Great Conflagration about 16 min
Chapter II about 16 min
Chapter III. Personal Experiences about 13 min
Chapter IV. Personal Experiences about 13 min
Chapter V. Personal Experiences about 10 min
Chapter VI. Personal Experiences about 12 min
Chapter VII. The Night After The Fire about 8 min
Chapter VIII. The Death Roll about 9 min
Chapter IX. The Desolation Completed about 10 min
Chapter X. The Losses By The Fire about 20 min
Chapter XI. Insurance about 8 min
Chapter XII. What Was Left about 4 min
Chapter XIII. The Business Outlook about 7 min
Chapter XIV. Aid From The State about 5 min
Chapter XV. The Resurrection about 9 min
Chapter XVI. Reconstruction about 5 min
Chapter XVII. The Losses Again about 10 min
Chapter XVIII. Incidents And Curiosities about 13 min
Chapter XIX. Incidents And Curiosities about 10 min
Chapter XX. Why She Was Destroyed about 10 min
Chapter XXI. The Newspapers And The Fire about 18 min
Chapter XXII about 15 min
Chapter XXIII. The Churches After The Fire about 10 min
Chapter XXIV. Sympathy And Relief about 16 min
Chapter XXV. Administration Of Relief about 18 min
Chapter XXVI. Humors Of The Fire about 12 min
Chapter XXVII. Good Out Of Evil about 11 min
Chapter XXVIII. The New Chicago about 12 min
Appendix about 2 h 7 min

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CHICAGO IN 1820. •CHICAGO AMD THE GREAT CONFLAGRATION BT ELLAS COLBERT AND EVERETT CHAMBERLTN. WITH Numerous Illustrations, by Chapin & Gulick, FKOli 2$alagrap|tr Jimz hfatt n % jfpi. CINCINNATI AND NEW YORK: C. F. VENT. CHICAGO: J. S G00D1IAN & CO. I PHILADELPHIA: HUBBARD BROS. Boston : Edward F. Hovky. Aububn, N. T. : F. M. Smith. San Francisco : F. Dewing & Co. 1871. Entered according to Act os Congress, in the year 1871, by C. E\ VENT, In the Office os the Librarian of.Congtesa, at "Washington, D. 0. 8TEBEOTTPED AT THE FRANKLIN TTPE FOUNDftT, CINCINNATI. CO^TE^TS. PART FIRST. FAOK

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