Mouth of the Chicago River the morning of Oct. 9

The image here is a drawing of a large crowd of people filling the Chicago water front as the fire burned the city.

Publication date: 1895-10-06

Size: 14.6 x 14.9 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: grayscale

Language:

• English

Geography:

• Chicago (Ill.)
• Chicago River (Ill.)

Temporal: 1871-10-09

Subject(s):

• Evacuations--Illinois--Chicago River--1870-1880
• Fires--Illinois--Chicago--1870-1880
• Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871

Genre(s):

• Illustrations

Type(s):

• still image
• text

Copyright(s):

• These materials are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational uses worldwide.

Is part of:

• The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Image Collection

Source(s):

• Chicago Sunday Tribune (October 6, 1895), Part 5, p. 33

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg