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."
