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37 lbs of clothing
made escape more difficult
Chicago's candy and gum
makers in early 1900s
Skirt lengths contributed to death toll
Chicago Athletic
Association 1903 fire
Christmas shopping in
1903 Chicago
Best-selling novels in
1903
Bullard & Gormley
supplied lanterns
Richard Crane's young
wife, Emily
Clark street in
Chicago early 1900s
1903 Coke shampoo
advertisement
Historic Chicago
Auditorium Theater
Corsets
cost lives at Iroquois
Cigar store kept Iroquois Theater receipts
Madison Street Chicago
early 1900s
View of 1901 Chicago
theater audience of hatless women
Northwestern med students
accused of body snatching
Chicago Schlesinger-Mayer
store
Chicago Sherman House
hotel Iroquois Theater victim haven
Society in 1903 was optimistic about the future and Chicago had reason to be especially confident. The city had rebuilt itself in a mere 22 years after the devastating 1871 fire -- enough to host the 1893 Columbian Exposition in grand style.
Chicagoans considered their city a rival of NYC in every way, including its appreciation for the arts, fashion and literature.
Unfairly labeled
a ghoul
Ghouls
May Blair
How telephones
raised a city
A note about sourcing. When this
project began, I failed to anticipate the day might come when a
more scholarly approach would be called for. When my
mistake was recognized I faced a decision: go back and spend years creating source lists for every page, or go
forward and try to cover more of the people and circumstances
involved in the disaster. Were I twenty years younger, I'd
have gone back, but in recognition that this project will end when I do, I chose to go forward.
These pages will provide enough information, it is hoped, to
provide subsequent researchers with additional information.
I would like to
hear from you if you have additional info about an Iroquois victim, or find an error,
and you're invited to visit the
comments page to share stories and observations about the Iroquois Theater fire.
