Fire engines at Capitol High School fire
Grab
Description
Crowd watching fire from behind steaming fire engine. Another engine has men working by it; fire fighter aims hose at fire in background. Handwritten on mat front: "N. end of Capitol School Bld. (on Grand River Ave.)." Stamped on mat back: "From Alvord & Co., exclusively commercial photographers, 55 Rowland St., Detroit, Mich., ground floor." Handwritten on mat back: "A cold morning in February [corrected to January], 1893. (Burning of the high school.) Detroit_High School."
Details
- Creator:
- Alvord & Co.
- Resource ID:
- DPA2408
- Subject:
- Fires--Michigan--Detroit
- Fire extinction--Michigan--Detroit
- Fire engines--Michigan--Detroit
- Schools--Fires and fire prevention
- Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
- Albumen prints
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1893-01-27
- Format:
- 1 photographic print mounted on mat board ; image 7 x 9.25 in.
- Department:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Location:
- D/Fire Dept.-Equipment
- Content Note:
- From Charles L. Clark Estate
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.