The Great Fire and its Aftermath

Firsthand Accounts

• Bell Dunnington
• Walter Scott Hancock
• John T. Thornton

Photographs of the Fire and Ruins

The Board of Visitors, Faculty and Students Respond

• Address to the Students of the University of Virginia
  October 28, 1895
• Report of the Faculty to Rector and Visitors (October 31, 1895)
• Editorial, University of Virginia Magazine, November 1895
• The University of Virginia, A Plea for Its Restoration
• The Story of the Fire, "Corks & Curls" 1896

Alumni and Friends Respond

• Burning of the University of Virginia
• Letters from Alumni and Friends

Realia From the Jefferson Rotunda

• Painted Roof Tile

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