St. Charles Hotel Fire

Description:

Black and white photograph of a stream of water aimed at the St. Charles Hotel as smoke is billowing out of the windows. Sams took the elevated image from the rooftop of the Charleston Hotel. Caption with negative, "Fire at St. Charles Hotel". Printed from a glass plate negative held in the Museum's collection.

• Title: St. Charles Hotel Fire
• Photographer: Sams, Franklin Frost (Dr.), 1867-1937
• Date: September 1899

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• Collection: Photograph Collection
• Object Name: Franklin Frost Sams Photographs
• Object Id: MK 7593

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• Search Terms
  • Amateur photography
  • Buildings
  • Destruction of property
  • Fires
  • Smoke