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English: Fire at Lincoln Hotel, Seattle, April 7, 1920   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Webster & Stevens
Title
English: Fire at Lincoln Hotel, Seattle, April 7, 1920
Description
English:

The Seattle Fire Department battled a large blaze at the Hotel Lincoln on April 7, 1920. The fire broke out in the middle of the night in the hotel's basement laundry room. By the time it was discovered, it had had burned upwards inside the walls. Many guests were trapped upstairs and had to be rescued by ladder or rope. Three guests and a fireman died in the blaze, but more than 300 others were rescued.

Handwritten on sleeve: Fire Lincoln Hotel. Caption by MOHAI staff.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Fires--Washington (State)--Seattle; Fire engines & equipment--Washington (State)--Seattle; Hotels--Washington (State)--Seattle
Depicted place
English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Date Taken on 7 April 1920
Medium
English: 1 nitrate negative: b&w
Dimensions height: 8 in (20.3 cm); width: 10 in (25.4 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,8U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,10U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
1526
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
Permission
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Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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File:Fire at Lincoln Hotel, Seattle, April 7, 1920 (MOHAI 2029).jpg
File:Putting out the fire at the Hotel Lincoln, April 7, 1920 (MOHAI 5071).jpg
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PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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