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| Date: | 06 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Ray B. Drives Lumberyard, 3420 Gregory Street, burned with only the west end standing after a $10,000 fire swept the structure. The fire cause was unknown ... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Valera Widener and her children: Norma (on her lap), Franklin (left), and Lyall (right), in Baron Brothers Department Store drinking milk provided by the E... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Joseph Rothschild, manager; Bertha Atkinson, buyer and Freda Kitson, saleswoman opened the children's and infants' department at Baron Brothers Department ... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Annie Simmons and her four children are enjoying a "picnic" on the floor at Baron Brothers Department Store after the fire in the tenement-type house at 15... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Bertha Atkinson, Baron Brothers Department Store buyer, fits a bootie on Norma Widener, 11-months old, being held by her mother Valera Widener. In the fore... |
| Date: | 01 17 1959 |
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| Description: | Burned hangers and shredded clothing hang on four clothing display racks inside the remains of the Robert Hall store after a fire. Three fire fighters are ... |
| Date: | 01 17 1959 |
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| Description: | View of the front of a fire-damaged commercial building at 3205 East Washington Avenue with two fire fighters, two hoses, and a ladder nearby. The signage ... |
| Date: | 01 31 1960 |
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| Description: | Wehrmann's Travel Shop at 508 State Street is destroyed by a fire that started late Sunday. A jumbled mass of luggage was all that was left after the fire ... |
| Date: | 01 31 1960 |
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| Description: | View of Wehrmann's Travel Shop storefront at 508 State Street with a fire truck parked outside. The shop was destroyed by fire late Sunday night. The Unive... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from across street towards fire engines parked in front of Haack's Bicycles at 1250 East Washington Avenue. Firefighters are on the roof. The... |
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