Opening Streets After Fire, Bangor (Bangor Fire, 1911) · Digital Collections

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

Title: Opening Streets After Fire, Bangor (Bangor Fire, 1911)
Creator: Whipple, Leyland
Date: May 1911
Description: This view after the fire of April 30, 1911, shows the ruins of the Morse-Oliver Building on the corner of Exchange and State streets that have been partially dynamited to permit rebuilding. A wheeled ladder rig, probably owned by Bangor Hydro, is being used to repair downed lines. As the streets were slowly re-opened to traffic, many of the Bangor residents chose to ride instead of walk--an early automobile is bumper-to-bumper with horse-drawn buggies.
Subject: Bangor (Me.)--Fire, 1911; Exchange Street (Bangor, Me.) Fires--Maine--Bangor; Ruins--Maine--Bangor; State Street (Bangor, Me.); Streets--Maine--Bangor; Bangor (Me.)--Photographs
Number: Slide 42
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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