Finnegan Photograph Collection
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This collection contains images related to the activities of the Richmond Fire Department.
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Where Two Died In Resort Fire
1943
Black and white photograph showing the aftermath of a fire at a health resort in Tangerine, Florida; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virginia ne…
![[Fire at the Kern Hotel]](https://cdn.yesterdays.maprva.org/images/38947/1/thumbnail.webp)
[Fire at the Kern Hotel]
1934
Black and white photograph showing a fire in progress at the Kern Hotel in Lansing, Michigan; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virginia newspaper…
After Fatal Fire To Four
1943
Black and white photograph showing a policeman inspecting charred wreckage at the home of a millionaire banker in Winnetka, Illinois; image likely ap…
Blaze Fought in 11 Below Zero Cold
1945
Black and white photograph showing the scene of a fire which destroyed three blocks of the business district in Bangor, Maine; image likely appeared…
New York Fireboats Battle Blaze on Cuban Mail Lin…
1941
Black and white aerial photograph showing several fireboats battling a blaze on a Cuban mail line ship in New York harbor, New York; image likely app…
Flames Sweep Parking Lot
1944
Black and white photograph showing flames engulfing a parking lot near fuel gas tanks on fire in Cleveland, Ohio; image likely appeared in a Richmond…
![[Alabama Fire]](https://cdn.yesterdays.maprva.org/images/38954/1/thumbnail.webp)
[Alabama Fire]
1934
Black and white photograph showing a fire in progress in a Birmingham, Alabama shopping district; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virginia newsp…
Fire Destroys Millwork Plant
1944
Black and white photograph showing firefighters battling a fire at the Standard Millwork and Supply Company plant in Jackson, Mississippi; image like…
Hotel Fire Toll is 22 Dead
1944
Black and white photograph showing the aftermath of a fire at the New Amsterdam Hotel in San Francisco, California; image likely appeared in a Richmo…
Spectacular Fire Sweeps Rubber Pile
1940
Black and white photograph showing smoke billowing from a fire in progress at the Lowenthal Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio; image likely appeared in a…
Fire Sweeps Paint Plant
1933
Black and white photograph showing a fire in progress at the Cook Paint & Varnish Company in Kansas City, Missouri; image likely appeared in a Ri…
Fire Destroys Alabama Hotel
1944
Black and white photograph showing a fire in progress at the Alabama Hotel in Anniston, Alabama; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virginia newspa…
Bodies of Three Victims in Hotel Corridor
1946
Black and white photograph showing the bodies of three people who died in a Chicago, Illinois hotel fire; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virgin…
Firemen Assist Women Guests from Blazing Hotel in…
1946
Black and white photograph showing firefighters helping guests from the burning Canfield Hotel in Dubuque, Iowa; image likely appeared in a Richmond,…
Remove Body of Fire Victim
1943
Black and white photograph showing firefighters removing the body of a man from the scene of a fire at a Chicago, Illinois bowling alley; image likel…
Douglas Aircraft Building Burns
1944
Black and white photograph showing firefighters directing water onto the ruins of a building at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Park Ridge, Illinois; i…
Grain Elevator Burns
1945
Black and white photograph showing flames shooting into the air from a grain elevator on fire in Chicago, Illinois; image likely appeared in a Richmo…
![Tenement Houses Burn After [Bomber Cra]sh](https://cdn.yesterdays.maprva.org/images/38968/1/thumbnail.webp)
Tenement Houses Burn After [Bomber Cra]sh
1944
Black and white photograph of fire and explosion after a Liberator bomber of the Royal Air Force crashed in Montreal, Canada; image likely appeared i…
Where Aged Met Fiery Death
1946
Black and white photograph of the charred and gutted remains of Jennings Hall, a home for the aged in Cleveland, Ohio; image likely appeared in a Ric…
Battling Raging Inferno in Camden
1940
Black and white photograph of firefighters battling a fire that swept through Camden, New Jersey; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virginia newsp…
$2,500,000 Blaze
1944
Black and white photograph of a fire in progress at the Morton Salt Company plant in Marysville, Michigan; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virgi…
Six-Alarm Philadelphia Fire
1944
Black and white photograph of firefighters battling a six alarm fire in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Vir…
Fire Imperils Rosin Supply
1944
Black and white photograph of a fire in progress at Turpentine and Rosin Factors, Inc. in Valdosta, Georgia; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Vir…
Overturned Fuel Truck Sets Fire
1945
Black and white photograph of firefighters battling a blaze near the Key Bridge in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia; image like…