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1871 Chicago fire
Photograph depicting the ruins following the fire in 1871.  Online courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
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3rd Class General Room

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4000 Miles Below Earth's Crust
This cutaway drawing depicts how scientists view the composition of Earth's interior. Click on the image for a better view.  
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A City in Ruins - San Francisco, 1906
On the 28th of May, 1906 - not long after the great quake and fire - George R. Lawrence sent an "airship" aloft.  His aim was to capture how San Francisco appeared at that time. His airship, in reality, was a series of Conyne kites - believed to be nine, in all - which carried a camera at...
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A City of Rubble
Photograph showing the extent of the damage caused by the earthquake in 1906.  
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A Distant Mirror - by Barbara W. Tuchman
A Distant Mirror:  The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman. Barbara Tuchman, the highly respected historian, analyzes life in the fourteenth "tortured century," drawing parallels to our own time.People who lived at that time endured all types of calamities - from natural (such as the...
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A Mother With Her Child

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A Potato-Eating Family

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A Rich Life in the First Century

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Accused of Spreading Plague - Jews Burned in a Pit
This illustration depicts the burning of Jews in the 14th century during the black death pandemic.  Jews were blamed for the plague and were believed to be less-susceptible to contracting the dreaded disease than their neighbors.  (Historians believe Jewish ritual requirements may have imp...
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