[Avalon Mill Fire]
Rating
Title
[Avalon Mill Fire]
Title Note
Title supplied by repository.
Caption
A handwritten note on the back of the card reads , "This mill fire is the Avalon Mill in Rockingham Co . (formerly in the community of Avalon) . It was totally destroyed by fire on June 15 , 1911. "
Transcription
Message on back of card : "8-6-11 . This is the beginning of a three hundred and fifty thousand dollar fire . Having plenty of chicken . Martin. " Addressed to "Mrs . Mable Murchmare , c The Haverty Furns. , Dallas , Texas. " Postmarked 7 August 1911 .
Description
Real photo view of a textile mill on fire . Smoke billows from the top of the building and a crowd gathers along the railroad tracks to watch .
Creation Date
1911
Date
1911
Subject (tgm)
Fires Mills Smoke Crowds Photographic postcards Textile industry Disasters
Subject Topical
Postcards--North Carolina.
Subject Geographic
Avalon (N.C.) Rockingham County (N.C.)
DCMI Type
Image
Form General
Postcards
Language
English
Physical Description of Original
86 mm x 138 mm
Medium of Original
Paper
Collection in Repository
Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077) ; collection guide available online at http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/P0077/
Local Identifier
P077;2-499
Citation
"[Avalon Mill Fire]" in Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Digital Collection
North Carolina Postcards
Repository
North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Host
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Copyright
Public Domain
filename
P077-2-499.tif
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