Collinwood Fire, 1908
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Introduction: Mass Media and the Collinwood Fire
2. Postcards
3. News on the Street
4. Public Square
5. Look of the News
6. Illustrations and Photos
7. “Information” and the Fire
8. Glenn Sanderson
9. Fire Heroines
10. Fritz Hirter
11. Stereotypes & Sorrow
12. Memory & Witness
City Entertainments:
Movies, Vaudeville & Vice
Portal
1. City Entertainments: Movies, Vaudeville & Vice
2. The Hollenden
3. Penney’s Saloon
4. Brothels & Salome
5. Dens of Vice
6. American Theater
7. William Bullock
8. Video’s Empire
RR Town
Portal
1. The Railroad Town
2. Improvements for the Village
3. Collamer Street
4. Environmental Degradation
5. Railyard Labor
6. Danger of Rail Work
7. Railroad Trainmen
8. Switchback Railways
9. Railyard Morgue
Lake View
School
Portal
1. Hearts, Minds & Schools
2. Teachers & Students
3. Katherine Weiler’s Pearls
4. School Attendance
5. School Architecture
6. 1000 School Fires
7. Monuments and Memorials
Victims
Victims List
Mapping Mortality
Class, Migration and Ethnicity
One Parent’s Story
Collinwood Transformed
Note on Sources
Teaching
Essential Questions
Learning objectives
in class collaboration
Extension Activity
Visual Literacy
Helena Hirter’s Schoolwork
Collinwood and the Triangle Fire
Video Commentary: The Stairway
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