Collinwood Fire, 1908

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    • Introduction: Mass Media and the Collinwood Fire
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    • 6. Illustrations and Photos
    • 7. “Information” and the Fire
    • 8. Glenn Sanderson
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    • 10. Fritz Hirter
    • 11. Stereotypes & Sorrow
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    • 1. City Entertainments: Movies, Vaudeville & Vice
    • 2. The Hollenden
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    • 5. Dens of Vice
    • 6. American Theater
    • 7. William Bullock
    • 8. Video’s Empire
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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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    • 6. 1000 School Fires
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  • Victims
    • Victims List
    • Mapping Mortality
    • Class, Migration and Ethnicity
    • One Parent’s Story
    • Collinwood Transformed
    • Note on Sources
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    • Extension Activity
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    • Helena Hirter’s Schoolwork
    • Collinwood and the Triangle Fire
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One Parent’s Story


  • Victims List

  • Mapping Mortality

  • Migration & Social Class

  • One Parent’s Story

  • Collinwood Transformed:
    A Story in Maps

  • Sources

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