Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Disasters |
Caption |
Union School Fire |
Date |
Oct 1908 |
Catalog Number |
2005.685.0036 |
Description |
Postcard photograph of Union School (also known as Midland High School and Central High School) after it was destroyed by fire on October 21, 1908. The school was located at the foot of McDonald Street where Grove Park is currently, built in 1872 as Midland's first K-12 school. |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Place |
Midland, MI |
Orig/copy |
Original |
Print size |
3.5" x 5.5" |
Collection |
Midland County Historical Postcard Collection |
Old ID number |
91.0.446;91.0.454 |
Classification |
Disasters/Fires Correspondence/Postcard |
Search Terms |
City, Midland Street, Grove and McDonald Street, Grove Street, McDonald School, Union School |
Subjects |
Fire Rubble Postcards Photographic postcards Disasters Schools |