Wheeler Opera House Fire, morning of March 17, 1893

Courtesy of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, obtained from http://images2.toledolibrary.org with the following caption:
"Crowds watch as Toledo fire fighters spray water on a fire at the Wheeler Opera House on Monroe and St. Clair Streets in Downtown Toledo in March of 1893".

Webmasters note:
The tangled mass of overhead wires was mostly from telegraph; electriciy and telephony were new and developing technologies in 1893.
US telephone penetration or teledensity in 1893 was just 0.4 per 100 people.

March 2013
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