- Collection:
- Hall County Georgia Historical Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Funerals of victims after the tornado
- Date of Original:
- 1936
- Subject:
- Funeral service--Georgia--Gainesville
Memorial service--Georgia--Gainesville
Mass casualties--Georgia--Gainesville
Tornadoes--Georgia--Gainesville
First United Methodist Church (Gainesville, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Hall County, Gainesville, 34.29788, -83.82407
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Funerals of victims after the tornado, 1936. Two hundred and ten dead Gainesvillians were revered at rites for the nameless in a memorial service symbolized in the double funeral of an unknown boy and girl. Services were held in the storm-scarred First Methodist Church, which was used as an emergency hospital after the disaster. Two thousand people, some of whom were bereaved relatives of storm victims, attended the mass tribute to the dead. Caption: "Hall County Library Photo Collection (0514) 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: April 16, 1936. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:hall_hchp_0514
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/hall/hchp/do:0514
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [Name of photograph], Hall County, Georgia historical photograph collection, Hall County Library System.
- Extent:
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 25 x 18 cm.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of: Hall County, Georgia historical photograph collection.
- Holding Institution:
- Hall County Library System (Ga.)
- Rights:
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