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| Title | Fire at Corner Market Building, Pike Place Market, Seattle, 1941 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1941 |
| Caption | On December 15, 1941 disaster struck the Pike Place Market. Just eight days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor the Sanitary Market building was destroyed by fire. Newspapers speculated that Japanese Americans were responsible for starting the blaze. The cause of the fire was never determined. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: Fires - Seattle - Sanitary Market (First and Pine).
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): December 15, 1941. |
| Subjects | Fires--Washington (State)--Seattle; Fire fighting--Washington (State)--Seattle; Fire engines & equipment--Washington (State)--Seattle; Markets--Washington (State)--Seattle; Pike Place Market (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI22904 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 safety film negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in.; dichroic fog |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
