IMAGE
1931 Fire from Leonard Brown's place Item Info
- Title:
- 1931 Fire from Leonard Brown's place
- Donor:
- Leonard Brown
- Date Created (Archival Standard):
- 1930-1940
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1931-08
- Organizations:
- USFS
- Description:
- A rural scene with several houses surrounded by fields and trees. A large plume of smoke rises into the sky in the background.
- Original Description:
- Brown's house and farm buildings in the foreground and a huge billowing cloud of smoke in the background. The fire started near Bead and Freeman Lakes and travelled across the peninsula at incredible speed. It was the worst natural disaster ever to have befallen the Priest River Valley. Location of the Brown place is in town on the west end of Beardmore Avenue.
- Subjects:
- forest service fires buildings
- Original Subject:
- forest service; buildings; guard stations; lookouts; camps
- Location:
- Bonner County
- Latitude:
- 48.18429994
- Longitude:
- -116.9197468
- Source:
- Marylyn Cork Collection, Priest River Library
- Source Identifier:
- fs2-01
- Type:
- Image;StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Language:
- eng
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "1931 Fire from Leonard Brown's place", Marylyn Cork Priest River Historical Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/priestriver/items/priestriver0229.html
Rights
- Rights:
- In copyright, educational use permitted. Educational use includes non-commercial reproduction of text and images in materials for teaching and research purposes. Materials in this digital collection are not held by University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives. Please contact Priest River Library at library@westbonnerlibrary.org for information.
- Standardized Rights:
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