Italian Hall Disaster in Pictures

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Title: Italian Hall Disaster in Pictures
Photographer: J. W. Nara
Subject Headings: Disasters, Victims - Disaster Victims - Child Disaster Victims, Buildings
Condition: Good
Description: "Italian Hall Disaster in Pictures" Where 74 people lost their lives in the Christmas Eve Celebration at Calumet, Mich., Dec. 24, 1913, in the panic of false cry of "fire" during big strike in Copper Country. The biggest catastrophe of its nature in the history of Michigan. [#3 in a series of 11 photographs depicting the aftermath of the tragedy. The doorway and stairs where people got jammed (The main entrance leading to the hall.)]
Source of Description: Front of photo [cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Anonymous
Date of Photo: 1914
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 12.6 cm x 17.2 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MTU Neg 03527
Collection Name: MTU Oversize Collection - Labor Strikes - Drawer 115A
Terms of Use: Rights to reproduce and distribute this image may be restricted. Contact the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections for further information.
User Comments:
• If you look closely, it's obvious that both sets of doors open outward. Look up at the transom, behind the closer mechanism for the outer doors. There was a small foyer between the two sets of doors.
6/11/2012 6:00:49 PM by Anonymous
• It looks to me as if there are two sets of doors. The doors close to the stairway opening inward toward the stairs but the situation is still controversial to this day.
9/22/2009 9:06:07 PM by Anonymous