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| Date: | 01 09 1883 |
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| Description: | A large crowd is on the street surrounding the burning building. Fire fighters are struggling with horses pulling the fire engine, and on the left a group... |
| Date: | 08 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Spectators and fireman at the Fitzgibbons building fire downtown. |
| Date: | 08 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters applying water to the burning Fitzgibbons building downtown. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Formally a Universalist Church (under Rev. Augusta Chapin), then a Baptist church, later a club house and eventually a dance hall. Photograph taken after ... |
| Date: | 11 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Blooming Grove neighbors of John Speranza digging a basement for a new Speranza shop which will replace the one lost to a fire that also destroyed the Sper... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Three horse-drawn fire engines are in the street with steam rising from their tanks. Other fire vehicles are to the right. Many pedestrians are on the stre... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A crowd is gathered on the street as jets of water are being directed by fire fighters towards a fire in a church. |
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| Description: | A large building has partially collapsed from a fire. Fire fighters, some of them standing on the roof of a building next door, aim large streams of water ... |
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| Description: | A large cloud of smoke blankets the end of the road, and snow covers the ground. Pedestrians are the sidewalks. A woman is running across the street, and a... |
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| Description: | Fire fighters on the street aiming fire hoses at a fire in a collapsing building. Smoke envelopes most of the fire and rubble. The wall of the building has... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the empty, burnt remnants of a building still partially standing. On the bottom, leaning against the second floor, is a ladder coming up ... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Groups of fire fighters work to put out a fire in winter. Smoke is billowing out the windows and covering the facade. A building on the far left has a sign... |
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| Description: | Fire fighters work to put out a fire in a four-story building on a city block. In front of a fire hose spraying water, a photographer is kneeling in front ... |
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| Description: | Three fire fighters are holding a hose to put out a fire. One man is standing on a ladder, while water is pouring out of the building onto the sidewalk and... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Small clusters of fire fighters work to put out a fire with fire hoses, which are aimed high at a building covered in smoke. |
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| Description: | A long line of fire fighters in the street are aiming fire hoses at a building. Coils of hoses cover the street. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A small group of fire fighters fight an unseen fire with three fire hoses. Smoke obscures the fire, and on the right, a fire engine has smoke billowing fro... |
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| Description: | A group of fire fighters are standing in the street trying to put out the blaze from a nearly collapsed building. Smoke is billowing up from the remnants o... |
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| Description: | Seven fire fighters are in an alley putting out a fire in a building. Three of the fire fighters are running with a fire hose, while two other men hold the... |
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| Description: | A group of fire fighters standing in the street while two men are being raised on a moving ladder, which is attached to the back of a truck. Two other ladd... |
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