Print, Photographic

Print. Black and white photographic print of a window display at The J.L. Hudson Company Department Store. A mannequin stands in the window dressed in a fireman's uniform with helmet; the image of a building on fire with firemen on the scene is featured in the background. Signage is visible on both sides of the window display and reads, "Fire Don't Happen - They're Caused!; More than 10,000 Persons Lose Their Lives by Fire Each Year; Every Fifty Minutes - Around the Clock - Someone Dies by Fire in the United States; In Detroit 57 Persons Died in Fires Last Year, 9 of these were Children; During the First 9 Months of this Year 37 Persons Died by Fire in Detroit; The National Fire Loss Last Year was Over Five Hundred Million Dollars; The National Fire Loss Provide a Home for Every Veteran and His Family; Every Ninety Seconds Someone's Home of Place of Business BURNS in the United States." Two clocks in the central foreground illustrate the time that a business or home burns in the United States as well as how frequent someone loses their life to fire. The photographic sequence number, and date are printed on the bottom of the recto, "22656 x; 10-12-46."