- Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs
- Title:
- Terminal Hotel manager in Grady Hospital after the disastrous fire, Atlanta, Georgia, May 16, 1938.
- Creator:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Date of Original:
- 1938-05-16
- Subject:
- Fires
Fires--Casualties
Terminal Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Newspaper caption on print verso: "Host to flames and death. G.P. Jones, manager of the Terminal Hotel, was asleep with Mrs. Jones in their third floor apartment when the crackle of flames awakened them. Mr. Jones said he rushed to the fire escape and found it enveloped in flames. He then broke out a window with an ashtray, cutting his left hand to the bone, and yelled to firemen who were raining ladders. The firemen carried the couple to safety. Mr. Jones is pictured at Grady Hospital where he received treatment.--Journal photo." Stamped "Return to May 17 1938 Fraysur."
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/3783
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/ajc:3783/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: AJCP553-040f, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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