Townsend & Wall Office Fire, 6th & Edmond, 1893. sepia. Photo of smoke coming out of tall 5-story brick commercial building, looking down the street at the smoking building at end of block Awnings over windows on first story. Stream of water from fire hose directed at building. Crowd of onlookers on sidewalk in front of stores further up the block. Handwritten on back: "Townsend & Wall Fire, 6th & Edmond, 1893"
Some of the business names painted on windows of buildings that are not involved in fire, further up the block:
Mechanics Building & Loan Association.
Quigley Bros. Title Abstracts
Knights of Pythias
Original digital scan located on History CD 01
Made/Created
Artist
unknown
Date made
1893
Place
City
St. Joseph
State/Province
Missouri
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, Photographic
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Photograph
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Fire departments
Search Terms
Sixth Street & Edmond Street, Fires in St. Joseph, Townsend & Wall
