Caption
In the 1930s. A man jumps from a building into a life saving sheet. A device invented in 1887, and was until the 1980s used to save people by letting them jump from the upper floors of a burning buildings into the net, usually to the ground level. Firefighters believed that the practical height limit for successful use of life nets was about six stories, although in a 1930 Chicago fire, three people survived jumps from an eighth story building into a life net. 1930s
Date
Jun 15, 1935
Credit line
Photo12/imageBROKER/Sjoberg
Reference
BRK25G77_004
Model release
No
Property release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
25,3Mb (1,2Mb) / 11,7in x 8,4in / 3500 x 2528 (300dpi)