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Click to enlargepadTinder Box

By Anthony Hatch

2003, hard cover, 266 pages, 32 pages of black and white photos, illustrations, and maps.

This is the 100th anniversary of one of the worst man-made disasters of the 20th century. When the Iroquois Theatre opened in Chicago on November 23, 1903, it was considered a monument to modern design and technology, as well as "absolutely fireproof." This was a theatre that would rival any in New York or Paris. Instead it became the funeral pyre for hundreds of victims.



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