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Fires

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Dunreith, Indiana train derailment photographs

 Collection — Folder SP118
Identifier: SP118
Scope and Contents This collection includes black-and-white photographs from the Indiana State Police on January 1, 1968 of a collision between two Pennsylvania Railroad trains and their subsequent derailment, near Dunreith Canning Company in Dunreith, Indiana.
Dates: 1968/01/01

Home fire hazards handout

 Collection — Folder S3435
Identifier: S3435
Scope and Contents This collection contains a handout on home fire hazards created by the Indiana State Fire Marshal Department circa 1935 and distributed by Mutuals Insurance Association of Indianapolis about the home hazards that cause the greatest amount of damage and the coordinating cost
Dates: circa 1935

Indiana School for the Blind 1893 fire collection

 Collection — Folder S1600
Identifier: S1600
Scope and Contents This collection includes a one-page account of the fire at the Indiana School for the Blind in Indianapolis, Indiana on August 2, 1893 and two clippings about the fire from the local newspapers.
Dates: 1893

Nikki Stoddard Schofield, Bowen-Merrill fire collection

 Collection — Folder S2304
Identifier: S2304
Scope and Contents This collection contains several items compiled by Nikki Stoddard Schofield regarding the March 17, 1890 Bowen-Merrill Company stationery and bookstore fire in Indianapolis, Indiana, including two essays from the Crown Hill Cemetery archives. The first essay, "'Horror of Horror': The Bowen-Merrill Fire," is six-page narrative about the fire and has Howard Stahl's signature on the last page (undated.) The second essay, "The Bowen-Merrill Fire," lists the ten firemen killed in the fire that are...
Dates: 1929-1930, undated