- Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Terminal Hotel Fire
- Date of Original:
- 1938
- Subject:
- Hotels--Georgia--Atlanta
Disasters--Georgia--Atlanta
Fires--Georgia--Atlanta
Fire fighters--Georgia--Atlanta
Fire fighting--Georgia--Atlanta
Firefighting equipment--Georgia--Atlanta
Equipment
Water use--Georgia--Atlanta
Terminal Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of firefighters attempting to put out the fire in Terminal Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.
Terminal Hotel was located on Spring Street and built in 1908. On May 16, 1938 an explosion in the basement or the kitchen started a fire which destroyed the building, and killed 34 people.
This work is filed as an image collected by Kenneth Rogers, the photographer is unknown. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 82.497.01
ahc082497001a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/Rogers/id/1796
- Extent:
- 4 x 5 in. black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
