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Iroquois Memorial - by Lorado Taft

Iroquois Memorial - by Lorado Taft

To commemorate the Iroquis Theater Fire of 1903

Iroquois Memorial Plaque

Lorado Taft

Iroquois Memorial Tablet

This bronze relief plaque was created by Lorado Taft, a renowned Chicago sculptor to commemorate the Iroquois Theater Fire of 1903. The Fire which broke out during the performance of Mr. Bluebird, claimed more than 600 lives. 

The tablet originally adorned the waiting room of the Iroquois Memorial Hospital and was recovered in the basement of the City Hall decades after the hospital had closed. 

Mr. Taft selected sympathy, personified as a woman as the central figure of the tablet to 'introduce a procession of humanity, some of them takers, some of them givers, but all deeply impressed by the significance of the dominating figure (of sympathy).

The commemorative inscription was commissioned by the Union League Club of Chicago.