Chicago, Illinois, Great Fire, 1871 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Chicago showing the burnt district, presented by Freeman & Burr. It was published by Freeman & Burr in 1871. Scale [ca. 1:29,300]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Illinois East State Plane Coordinate System NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 1201). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as the area burned by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, roads, railroads, railroad stations, drainage, city wards, and more. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

Notices of the most remarkable fires in Edinburgh, from 1385 to 1824, including an account of the great fire of Nov. 1824.

Mode of access: Internet.

The marine extension - the great fire

From a special issue: A Brief History of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands 1959-1988

Swift & Company year book covering the activities of the year 1921 : issued for thirty-seventh annual shareholders' meeting, January 5, 1922,general offices, Chicago, Ill., U.S.A.

Mode of access: Internet.

Juvenile delinquency, Chicago, Ill. Hearing before the Subcommittee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, first session, Pursuant to S. Res. 62, investigation of juvenile delinquency in the United States.

Mode of access: Internet.

Women in industry, by C. E. Knoeppel; an address based on answers to 1,000 questionnaires on women in industry, delivered before the national conference on "labor problems under war conditions," under joint auspices of the Society of industrial engineers and the Western efficiency society, Chicago, Ill., March, 1918.

Mode of access: Internet.

Transcript : Regional Public Meetings on the Resource Conservation and Recovery act of 1976, March 21 and 22, 1977, Chicago, Ill./

Sponsored by Environmental Protection Agency, Region V.

World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., 1893.

"Portraits of Columbus" and "Collective exhibit in the convent of La Rabida, at the World's Columbian exposition," by Thomas Wilson: v. 1, p. 187-200.

Conference: Pollution of the Interstate Waters of the Grand Calumet River, Little Calumet River, Calumet River, Wolf Lake, Lake Michigan, and Their Tributaries, Illinois--Indiana. Second session, Dec. 11-12, 1968, Jan. 29, 1969, Chicago, Ill.

"Supplement. 2d session, Reconvened, Aug. 26, 1969."

History of the Plague in London, 1665 : to which is added the Great Fire of London, 1666 /

"An historical narrative of the great and terrible fire of London, Sept. 2nd, 1666" [by Gideon Harvey] p. [207]-248.

The old and new churches of London, being a series of illustrations of the existing remains of church architecture in London from the Norman period to that of the great fire, with numerous examples of the churches built from the year 1844 to the present time,

Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress.

Communist infiltration of vital industries and current communist techniques in the Chicago, Ill., area. Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, first session. May 5, 6, and 7, 1959.

Mode of access: Internet.

Addresses and reports given at the cost accounting session ninth annual meeting National Gas Engine Association, Chicago, Ill. June 78-28-29, 1916.

Mode of access: Internet.