Digital images captured by Mark Hassell Smith documenting the response by firefighters to the January 13, 1983 fire that consumed Cannon's warehouse annex building in Greenville, N.C.
Cannon's warehouse annex building was a former tobacco warehouse which stood at 2113 Dickinson Avenue in Greenville, North Carolina. The warehouse was destroyed by fire on January 13, 1983. The fire also damaged a General Electric Company building and a Fieldcrest Mills storage facility.
21 digital images captured by Mark Hassell Smith documenting the response by firefighters to the Greenville Cannon warehouse fire on January 13, 1983. The Cannon warehouse building was located at 2113 Dickinson Avenue and took up a city block bordered on its north side by Dickinson Avenue, west side by Truman Street, and South side by May Street. The original photographs were taken by Smith stood at that corner of May and Truman Streets and along May Street, using a Pentax ME Super 35 mm on Kodachrome 64 slides. The Greenville Fire Department trucks in the photographs can be seen parked on May Street. Also present in the photographs are onlookers, a Channel 11 television news helicopter, and individual fire fighters and rescue personnel.
June 20, 2022, 21 images related to the Greenville Cannon warehouse fire from 1983. Digital files only. Special Collections does not own the originals. The fire trucks were parked on May Street (off of Hooker Road) and the building was at the corner of May Street and Truman Street. Mr. Smith stood at that corner and along May Street, using a Pentax ME Super 35 mm on Kodachrome 64 slides.
Gift of Mark Hassell Smith
Processed by John Dunning May 2023
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Original digital images taken on a Pentax ME Super 35 mm on Kodachrome 64 slides and donated in .zip archive split into 3 parts (.zip.001, .zip.002, .zip.003). To view access copies of the original files, users can download 7-zip software on their computer or use a similar program. Access copies of the original files have been made available in a .JPG file format.
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