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Central Park after 1889 fire

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Photograph of the downtown district after the fire in June 1889, which destroyed everything between Broad and Main streets, from the railroad tracks to Fourth Avenue. This view, looking southeast across the rubble to Broad Street and Central Park, shows the temporary huts built by merchants to house the post office, bank, and other businesses.
Title Central Park after 1889 fire
Alternative TitleFire of 1889
Index Date 1889
photographed 1889
Publisher Grinnell College
Note The city council allowed businesses to build shacks around the perimeter of Central Park. These temporary buildings, in use from June to December 1889, were dubbed "Oklahoma."
Provenance Gift of John Kleinschmidt, 1997
Topic Architecture--United States
Topic Carriages and carts
Topic Disasters
Topic Fires
Geographic Grinnell (Iowa)
Geographic Poweshiek County (Iowa)
Temporal Eighteen eighties
Related Item John Kleinschmidt Collection
Related Item Poweshiek History Preservation Project
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Genre Photographs
Extent 1 photograph, b&w, 25.5 x 17.5 cm
Media Type image/tiff
Digital Origin digitized other analog
Language English
Identifier (local) grinnell:3288
Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/3288
Physical Location Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections
Shelf Locator MS 39, Series 3 Photographs, Box 2: Commercial
Access Condition Copyright to this work is held by the author(s), in accordance with United States copyright law (USC 17). Readers of this work have certain rights as defined by the law, including but not limited to fair use (17 USC 107 et seq.).
Type of Resource Photograph
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