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
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    • 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
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    • 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
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    School
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    • 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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Casualties: Lists, Maps & Data

  • Victims
    List

  • Mapping Mortality

  • Social Class, Migration & Ethnicity

  • One Parent’s Story: An Interactive Timeline

  • Collinwood Transformed: A Story in Maps

  • Sources
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