Burning of the Public Library (Bangor Fire, 1911)

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Item sets: Leyland Whipple Lantern Slides; Views of Bangor's Big Fire, April 30, 1911

Title: Burning of the Public Library (Bangor Fire, 1911)
Creator: Whipple, Leyland
Date: April 30, 1911
Description: This hand-colored lantern slide shows the Bangor Public Library and the Historical Society burning during the fire of 1911. The pile of lumber hints at the scale of destruction; many blocks in the buisiness section were lost, and the conflagration has clearly spread in the background. The trolley tracks are also shown.
Subject: Bangor (Me.)--Fire, 1911; Bangor Historical Society (Bangor, Me.)--History; Bangor Public Library (Bangor, Me.)--History; Fires--Maine--Bangor; Libraries--Maine--Bangor; Bangor (Me.)--Photographs
Number: Slide 23
Type: Lantern slides; Photographs
Spatial Coverage: Bangor (Me.)
Temporal Coverage: Nineteen tens; Twentieth century
Language: English
Is Part Of: Bangor Public Library Special Collections; Leyland Whipple Lantern Slides
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