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Miss Nellie Reed


Title	Miss Nellie Reed
Description	Caption: "Miss Nellie Reed, Leader of the Flying Ballet, killed by the fire." From text: "Miss Nellie Reed, the principal of the flying ballet, which was in place for its appearance near the top part of the stage, was so badly burned by the flames before she was able to escape that she afterward died at the county hospital. The other members of the flying ballet were not injured."
Date	1904
Type	Photographs
Identifier	chicagosawfulthe00ever_0174.jp2
Source	http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagosawfulthe00ever#page/n173/mode/2up
Physical Location	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format	image/jp2
Subject Name	Iroquois Theater (Chicago, Ill.)
Subject	Ballet dancers
Coverage-Spatial	Chicago (Ill.)
Date of Content	1900-1909
Publisher	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois at Chicago
Rights	Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Sub-Collection	People Women
Collection	Picture Chicago
Book Title	Chicago's awful theater horror
Author of the Book	Everett, Marshall, 1863-1939.
Link to the Full-Text	http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagosawfulthe00ever