Pickwick Club disaster

Item Information

Title:
Pickwick Club disaster
Description:
Copy image of disaster a speakeasy in Boston where the floor collapsed under a crowd of dancers, resulting in 44 deaths.
Photographer:
Blackington, Alton H.
Date:
[ca. July 4, 1925]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Black-and-white photographs
Glass plate negatives
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Collection (local):
Alton H. Blackington Collection
Subjects:
Disasters--Massachusetts--Boston--Photographs
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 photograph ; 12.5 x 10 cm.
Link to Item:
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/muph061-sl234-i001
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Boston (Mass.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
muph061-sl234-i001