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Smoke billows and fire pours from top half of Adler's Store. Fire fighters stand on a ladder directing the fire hose water blast. Sign Globe Shoe Company visible. Adler's Department Store on Broughton St. in Savannah Georgia taken May 20, 1958.
Creation Date (Actual or Estimated)
5-20-1958
Recommended Citation
Hettinger, Vann E., "Adler’s Department Store Fire Photograph 2" (1958). Adler's Department Store Fire May 20 1958 Photographs. 2.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/adlers-store-fire/2
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Notes
Scanned from film images by the photographer Vann E. Hettinger. On May 20th 1958 he photographed fire that consumed Adler’s Dept. Store on Broughton Street. The Savannah Morning News called it the worst downtown fire since 1889 and Adler’s a landmark for shoppers for 70 years. Finding Aid https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/finding-aids-lane/2/