Jane Wallace Photos Acquired

Jane Wallace survived the 1946 Winecoff Hotel fire

Jane Wallace was 24, a nurse, and in Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel to meet her husband, Byron, for a last attempt to save their marriage. It must not have gone well, or at all, because he wasn't there when the fire broke out, though both of their names appeared on the guest list.

She was rescued via ladder across a ten foot alleyway on the hotel's West side - fifteen floors up. She was soon divorced and spoke little of Byron or the fire thereafter. She remarried in 1947 and died in 1984. More photos and full biography are here.