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The Rotunda in Ruins
Prints Collection 4x5-628-A
The Rotunda in Ruins
Prints Collection 4x5-628-A
Prints Collection 4x5-628-A
The Rotunda and Annex immediately after the fire
Photograph looking east of the Rotunda and Annex immediately after the fire, 1895
Wampler, photographer
(MSS 9292-a)
Wampler, photographer
(MSS 9292-a)
The Great Fire from the Lawn
Holsinger Studio Collection U-293-B
The Great Fire from the Lawn
Holsinger Studio Collection U-293-B
Holsinger Studio Collection U-293-B
The Great Fire
Holsinger Studio Collection U-293
The Great Fire
Holsinger Studio Collection U-293
Holsinger Studio Collection U-293
Photograph of the “Great Fire” of the Rotunda
Photograph of the “Great Fire” of the Rotunda, 1895
Holsinger’s Studio
University Archives (RG-30/1/3.951)
Holsinger’s Studio
University Archives (RG-30/1/3.951)
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John T. Thornton, the son of William Mynn Thornton (Chairman of the Faculty), was twenty years old at the time of the Great Fire. He recorded his eyewitness account on the evening of the fire, Sunday, October 27, 1895, in a letter to his mother,…
