[The Damron Hotel Fire, 7 of 21: The Parking Lot Behind the Hotel] Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title [The Damron Hotel Fire, 7 of 21: The Parking Lot Behind the Hotel]

Date

  • Creation: 1975-12-22
  • Digitized: 2007-11-21

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: This is yet another view of the spectacular fire that consumed the Damron Hotel during the 1975 Christmas Season. The Damron was originally built as the Colonial Hotel in 1906 by rancher J.T. Holt for his second wife. The name was changed in 1917 when the hotel was traded to Agnew and Bessie Damron. The fire was covered extensively by free-lance photographers. The hotel was formerly located on at 109 W. Hubbard Street, on the corner of the block that included SW 1st Avenue and SW 1st Street. Spot fires began on many nearby buildings, but they were extinguished quickly by volunteers atop those same buildings. This picture was taken during the later stages of the fire, and shows the gutted rear of the hotel, with huge flames still burning in the front portion of the building.

Subject

  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Business, Economics and Finance - Hotels
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Government and Law - Civil Servants - Firefighters
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Business, Economics and Finance - Tourism

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Palo Pinto County - Mineral Wells
  • Time Period: mod-tim

Collection

  • Name: A. F. Weaver Collection
    Code: AFWC

Institution

  • Name: Boyce Ditto Public Library
    Code: BDPL

Rights

  • Rights Access: public

Resource Type

  • Photograph

Format

  • Image

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: AWO_1276N.006
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth29898
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