Four hundred twenty-seven died

Hundreds of people stand around the remains of a school in New London, Texas, after a gas explosion that took the lives of 427 people, many of them children.

Publication date: 1937-12-26

Size: 12.2 x 20.4 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: grayscale

Language:

• English

Geography:

• New London (Tex.)

Temporal: 1937-03-18

Subject(s):

• Explosions--Texas--New London--1930-1940
• London School of New London (Tex.)

Genre(s):

• Photographs

Type(s):

• still image
• text

Copyright(s):

• These materials are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational uses worldwide.

Is part of:

• The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Image Collection

Source(s):

• Chicago Sunday Tribune (December 26, 1937), p. 5

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg

Contributor(s):

• Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)