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Description
Photo focuses on fighting the fire. Two fire fighters are on the fire truck's extension ladder directing water from a fire hose to the top floors. Fire fighters are climbing another ladder to a lower floor window, one person is at the window. A second fire hose blast of water from below is visible. Adler’s Dept. Store on Broughton Street in Savannah Georgia USA photo made on May 20 1958.
Creation Date (Actual or Estimated)
5-20-1958
Recommended Citation
Hettinger, Vann E., "Adler’s Department Store Fire Photograph 5" (1958). Adler's Department Store Fire May 20 1958 Photographs. 5.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/adlers-store-fire/5
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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/