St. Charles Hotel Fire

Description:

Black and white photograph of a crowd of people gathered at the corner of Hassell and Meeting Streets to watch the St. Charles Hotel fire. Sams has set his camera up on the brick pavement of Hassell Street to capture the image. 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 7587

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