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Agricultural Experiment Barn fire

Agricultural Experiment Barn fire

Title

Agricultural Experiment Barn fire

Description

The fire at the Iowa Agricultural College Experiment Barn in 1902. The building was of frame construction with a gable roof. Flames are engulfing the roof and traveling down the sides of the building as a crowd of onlookers watches.
The Iowa Agricultural College Experiment Barn, built in 1894 by Architects Nourse and Hallett and contractor Bisbee and Potter. The barn burned in 1902 along with an adjacent cattle barn. The Experiment Station Barn replaced an earlier building.

Creator

Iowa State University

Source

4-8-I.Barns.224-3-2

Publisher

Iowa State University Library Special Collections; http://www.add.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/index.html

Date

1902
2007-04-26

Rights

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Relation

University Photographs; http://www.add.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/collections/images.html

Format

Photograph
16.5 x 12.1 cm

Type

Image (color)
Image

Identifier

4-8-I.Barns.224-3-2
https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/