Blameuser Building Fire -- Firemen and Volunteers Photograph, 1940
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- Created Date
- 1940-11-25
- Description
Black-and-white photograph of the fire at the Blameuser Building on Oakton Street on November 25, 1940, just a little more than a week after Niles Center, Illinois was renamed Skokie, Illinois. Shown: unidentified women serving coffee to unidentified fire fighters. Peter Blameuser, Jr. was the building's original owner. The Blameuser Building was eventually torn down. Businesses shown (in background): Pontiac; Drug Store; First National Bank of N...
- Contributing Institution
- Skokie Public Library
- Collection
- Skokie History Project
- Subjects
- Fire fighters
Fire-departments
Fires
Municipal services
Volunteers
Blameuser Building
Niles Center Fire Department
Niles Center Volunteer Fire Company
Oakton Street
Skokie Fire Department
Uniforms
Blameuser, Peter, Jr - Location
- Skokie
Illinois
United States - Type
- image
- Format
- Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), 300 DPI, 24-bit color (16.7 million colors), Agfa Duoscan T1200, Adobe Photoshop v.6.0Paper
- Language
- English
- Rights
- This item may be protected by copyright and is made available here for noncommercial research and education purposes. You are responsible for ensuring your use of this image is in line with all applicable law and rights. Where copyright may fall to the Skokie Heritage Museum, we authorize a free CC-BY-NC-SA license. For commercial licensing, please contact the Skokie Heritage Museum.
- Chicago citation style
- Blameuser Building Fire -- Firemen and Volunteers Photograph, 1940. 1940-11-25. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/skokiepo02/id/2319. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- (1940-11-25) Blameuser Building Fire -- Firemen and Volunteers Photograph, 1940. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/skokiepo02/id/2319
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/skokiepo02/id/2319>.