Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID |
FMH_0193 |
Object Name |
Photograph, Digital |
Description |
Photograph dated September 1916 by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, titled "Ruins of the Vanderslice Shop." Mr. K. B. Vanderslice, a blacksmith, opened his shop in 1911 on the north side of Fairhope Avenue, between Section Street and Bancroft Street in Fairhope, Alabama. A fire destroyed the shop, all contents, his vehicle and the motorcycle of his employee Rudolph Tuveson. Here children look at the ruins of his business. Next door, and not damaged in the fire, is Gaston's Auto Livery (opened 1914). The town's second water tank, recently installed in 1916, stands prominently in the picture; the pump was not working when the fire occured. A second picture is included, this one in black and white. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History, Donelson Collection. |
Search Terms |
Photographs Businesses Fairhope Avenue Water Tank Livery Downtown Fairhope Museum of History, Donelson Collection |
People |
Stewart, Frank Vanderslice, K. B. |
Date |
1916 |
Collection |
Fairhope Single Tax Corporation |