Fenway Park fire

Title:: Fenway Park fire
Description:: Fire trucks battling the off-season fire in left field corner grandstand of Fenway Park.
Photographer:: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967
Date:: January 5, 1934
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Glass negatives
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Leslie Jones Collection
Series:: Sports: Identified [Baseball]
Subjects:: Stadiums
Fires
Baseball
Fenway Park (Boston, Mass.)
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/b5644v541
Terms of Use:: Copyright (c) Leslie Jones.
All rights reserved.

Notes:: Original data provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve: Fenway Park fire, 1934
Corrected date based on research by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011.
Summary provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011.
During the off-season construction ordered by new Red Sox team owner Tom Yawkey, a fire broke out in the left/center field grandstand area on January 5, 1934 (Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011).
Accession #:: 08_06_010763

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