- Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Terminal Hotel Fire
- Creator:
- Rogers, Kenneth, 1907-1989
- Date of Original:
- 1938-05
- Subject:
- Hotels--Georgia--Atlanta
Disasters--Georgia--Atlanta
Fires--Georgia--Atlanta
Fire fighters--Georgia--Atlanta
Fire fighting--Georgia--Atlanta
Sculpture--Georgia--Atlanta
Monuments and memorials--Georgia--Atlanta
Spencer, Samuel, 1847-1906--Statues
Terminal Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.)
Atlanta Terminal Station (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of people gathered around the statue of Samuel Spencer, in front of the Terminal Hotel in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, after a fire damaged the building the night before.
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. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 82.103.04
ahc082103004a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/Rogers/id/340
- Extent:
- 4 x 5 in. black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
