Campus fire –remains of the Normal School Building after the fire, December 1924

Title:: Campus fire –remains of the Normal School Building after the fire, December 1924
Description:: View of the remains of the western side of the brick Normal School Building.
Date:: 1924
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Photographic prints
Location:: Bridgewater State University, Maxwell Library
Archives & Special Collections
Collection (local):: Bridgewater State University Historical Photographs
Subjects:: Teachers colleges
Educational facilities
Fires
State Normal School (Bridgewater, Mass.)
Places:: Massachusetts > Plymouth (county) > Bridgewater
Extent:: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm.
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Notes:: Arthur C. Boyden's account speculated on the fire's cause: "… it is probably that rats and mice were responsible for it. The heating ducts keep the concealed places warm at this time of year and make them good places for rodents. Matches may have been taken in and ignited by the heat or by the possible gnawing of the rats, or ordinary spontaneous combustion may have occurred."
Notes (exhibitions):: Digital item is part of “$1,000,000 Blaze at Bridgewater”: A Campus Transformed
Identifier:: VMC003-1018