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Title
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Spokane Fires
Description
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The summer of 1889 was particularly dry in the Pacific Northwest. Forest fires throughout the region were joined by a massive urban fire in Seattle on June 3rd. On August 4th, a fire ignited in a lodging house near the Northern Pacific Depot on Railroad Avenue in the city of Spokane Falls. Racing through the makeshift wooden buildings near the railroad tracks, the flames rapidly spread to the brick downtown. The fire department could not contain the blaze due to equipment failure. In the end, 32 blocks of the city center were razed.
These black and white images are a sample of the Northwest Room's collections showing the aftermath of this fire. Some of the photographs are views of the burnt-out streets and blocks indicating the physical effects of the fire and early reconstruction efforts. The others document the improvised quarters of businesses in the city in the period immediately after the fire.
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Still Image
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Rights
Spokane Public Library has determined that this unpublished photograph was created before 1900 and has passed into the public domain.
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Title
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Spokane Fire, 1889 (#10)
Subject
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Fires -- Washington (State) -- Spokane
Description
An account of the resource
Insurance adjusters at work in improvised quarters after fire.
Type
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Black-and-white photographs
Format
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image/tiff
Source
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Northwest Room. Spokane Public Library
Rights
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Date
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1889