Ashes from which a phoenixlike city was to rise again

A view of Chicago, destroyed after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, looking southwest from the top of the Chicago Water Tower.

Publication date: 1938-04-03

Size: 24.3 x 21.5 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: grayscale

Language:

• English

Geography:

• Chicago (Ill.)

Temporal: 1871-10

Subject(s):

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

Genre(s):

• Cityscape photographs
• Photographs

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 (April 3, 1938), p. 6

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg

Contributor(s):

• Chicago Historical society