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Episode of the television series “You Are There” featuring a fake news report on the Chicago Fire of 1871. Walter Cronkite acts as the news anchor ...

Unedited footage capturing the aftermath of a fire at the American Distillery in Pekin, IL on August 3-4, 1954.

Unedited news footage of a massive fire blazing at the Standard Oil refinery at Whiting, Indiana in late August 1955.

A crowd of onlookers watch the Chicago fire department attempt to extinguish a fire in the Jefferson Park neighborhood on April 14, 1957.

Footage of Chicago firefighters battling a massive fire at a grain elevator on the Calumet River.

Firefighters attempt to extinguish a massive fire at Allgauer's Fireside Restaurant in Lincolnwood, IL at the northwest corner of Lincoln and Touhy...

Black and white footage of the inquest into the fire that took place at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago on December 1, 1958. 92 pupils and...

Silent newsreel outtakes capturing the aftermath of an Illinois Centrail Railway train derailment near Chicago. Laborers endeavor to repair the tra...

Silent newsreel outtakes capturing a flooded area near Kansas City, Kansas in August 1958. Footage includes shots of an overflowing Stranger Creek,...

Silent news outtakes from April 6, 1958, when a midair malfunction caused Capital Airlines Flight 67 to crash short of the runway at Tri-City Airpo...

Silent news outtakes capturing flooding on Chicago's northwest side on November 27, 1958. The flooding was caused by a burst water main pipe.

Silent news outtakes capturing the destruction caused by a wind storm in Ann Arbor, Michigan on May 11, 1959. Includes footage of firefighters brea...

Silent black and white outtakes showing images (including aerials) of drought damage in Texas and a brief shot of Preisdent Dwight D. Eisenhower wi...

Black and white footage featuring images from the aftermath of a plane that crashed into residential buildings near Midway airport in Chicago. Imag...