- Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs
- Title:
- Two Terminal Hotel fire survivors in hospital beds at Grady Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, May 16, 1938.
- Creator:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Date of Original:
- 1938-05-16
- Subject:
- Fires
Fires--Casualties
Terminal Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.)
Western Union Telegraph Company - 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:
- Two prints mounted to cardboard, accompanied by newspaper caption dated "Monday, May 16, 1938": "Safe -- But two of their pals are missing. W.P. Postans (left) and H.R. Thompson, members of a Western Union construction crew, were asleep in their room on the fourth floor of the Terminal Hotel. Awakened by choking smoke, they rushed to a window and attracted the attention of a fireman in the street below. Postans, partially overcome by smoke, was carried down a ladder; Thompson was able to climb down alone. They are seen at Grady Hospital. [crossed out:] The other members of their crew, A.C. Withers, foreman, and D.D. Wilson, also guests in the hotel, have not been heard from since the fire -- Journal photos. [Typed in:] A fellow worker, D.D. Wilson, who shared an adjoining room, perished in the fire." Board inscribed "Return to Fraysur."
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/3787
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/ajc:3787/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: AJCP553-040h, 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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