- Collection:
- Hall County Georgia Historical Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Pruitt-Barrett hardware store fire
- Date of Original:
- 1936-04-16
- Subject:
- Fires--Georgia--Gainesville
Tornadoes--Georgia--Gainesville
Pruitt-Barrett Hardware--Fire, 1936 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Hall County, Gainesville, 34.29788, -83.82407
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Pruitt-Barrett hardware store destroyed during a fire. This graphic picture taken April 16, 1936 shows the hopelessness of attempts to rescue anyone in the crushed, burning four-story building that was Pruitt-Barrett Hardware Company, one of Gainesville's largest businesses.
Caption: "Hall County Library Photo Collection (0513) Gainesville, Georgia."
Digitized by: Digital Techniques, Inc.
Electronic version made available through a federal Library Services and Technology Act Grant and Georgia Public Library Services.
Photo Courtesy: Atlanta Journal Gainesville Eagle - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:hall_hchp_0513
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/hall/hchp/do:0513
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [Name of photograph], Hall County, Georgia historical photograph collection, Hall County Library System.
- Extent:
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 23 cm.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of: Hall County, Georgia historical photograph collection.
- Holding Institution:
- Hall County Library System (Ga.)
- Rights:
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