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Female doll with ceramic head, arms and legs, blond wig of real hair, stuffed body and mechanical glass eyes; wearing brown and aqua floral print dress with four pearl buttons up back, white cotton dr…

View of the Cook County Courthouse, seen through ruins of east side of Clark Street after the Chicago Fire of 1871.

Clear glass marble fragment with multi-colored swirls on interior.

Plain, off-white piece of cloth with "POLICE" printed in black type in center.

View of the ruins of the Palmer House Hotel after the Chicago Fire of 1871.

A group of three glass marbles fused together. Largest marble is misshapen and mostly opaque, but some interior colors are visible. Attached are two smaller marbles: one clear with colored interior sw…

A small miniature (model) bird's nest made of porcelain. Nest is white, covered in green porcelain moss with three white porcelain eggs inside. Interior is gray.

View north from the Water Tower after the Chicago Fire of 1871, taken circa 1871-1872. This is one of a series of views documenting the progress of rebuilding from the top of the Water Tower. The lake…

Small blackened clump of bronze pins melted together. Not a solid mass.

Fire Marshal's helmet made of metal painted white. Helmet is a ribbed dome made of four sections joined by pointed metal strips, and with brim that widens and curves down at back. Brass eagle on top o…

View of the ruins of the Chicago Historical Society building after the Chicago Fire of 1871. The Society was located at Ontario and Dearborn Streets.

Four white china teacups fused together in a stack with numerous cup fragments fused to sides and top. Cups are discolored with brown, black, and yellow streaks.

Speaking trumpet (megaphone) made of brass, with two rings attached by pins near ends for hanging but otherwise undecorated. Narrow end has oval shaped mouthpiece.

Rusted metal horseshoe with four nails attached.

Two clasped hands made of ceramic with marble core, fused together with mortar, broken from statue at wrists. Ceramic is charred black and chipped in places, exposing core.

Front page of the Chicago Evening Journal-Extra for the October 9, 1871 issue reporting the fire. Headline reads: Great Calamity of the Age! Chicago in Ashes!! Hundreds of Millions of dollars” worth o…

Dark wooden board with black hand-painted text reading Wm. D. KERFOOT/is at 59 Union Park Place/All gone but WIFE/CHILDREN AND ENERGY. Board is cracked in middle and has numerous nail holes.

A mass of green glass bottles which have melted into a rough cube shape, with necks still visible. Small pieces of concrete fused to exterior of Object.

Kerfoot's Block after the Chicago Fire of 1871, Chicago, Illinois.

Small bird-shaped figurine made of stone, with feet and tail broken off. Painted a yellow color, badly chipped.