The fire escape
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- Created Date
- 1871
- Description
Lithograph titled the Fire Escape. Illustration features a group of women and children trying to escape a burning building during the Chicago Fire of 1871. It reads: An incident of the Chicago Fire. A family awakened at midnight and using the only means of escape from the burning – a bridge connecting the roof of one house with another.
- Creator
Kellogg & Bulkeley (publisher)
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Visual works (works)
Prints (visual works)
Great Fire (1871 : Chicago, Ill.)
Ruins
Fires (events) - Location
- Hartford (Conn.)
Chicago (Ill.) - Type
- image
- Format
- Color lithographs
- Rights
- No known copyright restrictions
- Chicago citation style
- Kellogg & Bulkeley (publisher). The fire escape. 1871. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_pp/id/53. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Kellogg & Bulkeley (publisher), (1871) The fire escape. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_pp/id/53
- MLA citation style
- Kellogg & Bulkeley (publisher). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_pp/id/53>.