Hotel Kerns Fire Scrapbook

Description:

This is a scrapbook that includes the headlines and articles from regular and special edition Lansing State Journal newspapers and other area papers such as the Detroit Free Press, for the day of the Hotel Kerns Fire (December 11, 1934) and about two weeks following. The articles detail names of deceased, injured, and missing, as well as follow-up investigation efforts and cleanup from the fire. A copy of the "Lansing Capital Times" (Vol. 1 No. 14, Oct. 22 - Nov. 4, 1986) with a cover story on the hotel fire is also included. The scrapbook has been made out of an old accounting ledger, and the source is unknown.

Date Created:

1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives

Collection:

Hotel Kerns Fire Scrapbook

Subject Topic:

Fire, Hotels, Lansing (Mich.), Scrapbooks, Newspaper clippings, and Tragedies

Language:

English

Rights:

Copyright Not Evaluated

URL:

http://cadl.pastperfectonline.com/archive/96881121-54CD-4BDF-8F39-122004585254