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Moscow Fire in 1890 Item Info
![June 6, 1890 a fire causing the loss of probably $10,000.00 visited the city. The fire started in the rear of the Hamlin building at 9.00 P.M. and destroyed the Hamlin's Hall, E. Mather's barber shop, F. Yangle's taylor [sic] shop, C.H. Jones butcher shop, the Morris building occupied by the telephone office and the commission store occupied by H. Fallon, the photography studio of H. Erickson [sic] and the J.W. Lieuallen grocery stock and building. These were all wooden frame buildings and a more disastrous spread of flames was averted only by the greatest effort. The water works had just been completed and to this fact alone the salvation of the business part of town was due. See picture number 57 [90-2-0057] on opposite page showing some of the buildings destroyed.](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/ott/ott284.jpg)
- Title:
- Moscow Fire in 1890
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1890-06-06
- Description:
- June 6, 1890 a fire causing the loss of probably $10,000.00 visited the city. The fire started in the rear of the Hamlin building at 9.00 P.M. and destroyed the Hamlin's Hall, E. Mather's barber shop, F. Yangle's taylor [sic] shop, C.H. Jones butcher shop, the Morris building occupied by the telephone office and the commission store occupied by H. Fallon, the photography studio of H. Erickson [sic] and the J.W. Lieuallen grocery stock and building. These were all wooden frame buildings and a more disastrous spread of flames was averted only by the greatest effort. The water works had just been completed and to this fact alone the salvation of the business part of town was due. See picture number 57 [90-2-0057] on opposite page showing some of the buildings destroyed.
- Subjects:
- clippings fires
- Location:
- Latah County;Moscow
- Latitude:
- 46.7333
- Longitude:
- -117.001573
- Source:
- PG 90, Clifford M. Ott Collection, University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/
- Source Identifier:
- 90-02-059
- Type:
- Image;StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Moscow Fire in 1890", Ott Historical Photograph Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/ott/items/ott284.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Material determined to be in Public Domain based on date of publication. Material made available by the University of Idaho Library. For more information, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu.
- Standardized Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/