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Photographer: Converse College by Jeffrey R. Willis
Taken: January 2, 1892
Caption: Great Fire of 1892
Additional Description: On January 2, 1892, shortly after 11:00 p.m., a fire began in the heating plant of Main Hall. Many of the students, who had just returned from the holiday, filled pitchers of water and tried in vain to contain the fire.
Submitted: February 20, 2011, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p145045
File Size: 0.072 Megabytes

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