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Shipyard Fire
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1946
Black and white photograph showing a fire in progress at the Evansville Shipyards in Evansville, Indiana; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virgin…
Where Five Perished
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1935
Black and white photograph showing ruins of the fire-damaged St. Jean de Dieu Mental Hospital in Montreal, Canada; image likely appeared in a Richmon…
![[Country Home Destroyed]](https://cdn.yesterdays.maprva.org/images/38893/1/thumbnail.webp)
[Country Home Destroyed]
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1935
Black and white photograph showing the remains of a home in a rural area destroyed by fire; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virginia newspaper. …
Flames Roar in Background Following Gas Storage B…
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1944
Black and white photograph showing flames rising from a gas storage tank in Cleveland, Ohio; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virginia newspaper.…
![[Army Bomber Crashes Into Memphis House]](https://cdn.yesterdays.maprva.org/images/38895/1/thumbnail.webp)
[Army Bomber Crashes Into Memphis House]
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1944
Black and white photograph showing firefighters inspecting damage after a U. S. Army bomber crashed into a house in Memphis, Tennessee; image likely …
Slaughterhouse In Flames
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1941
Black and white photograph showing an aerial view of an abattoir on fire in Jersey City, New Jersey; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virginia ne…
German Prize Ship Burns
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1946
Black and white photograph showing smoke billowing from the German prize ship "Empire Waveney," on fire in Liverpool harbor, England; image likely ap…
Destroyed By Canyon Fire
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1943
Black and white photograph showing a man examining the ruins of a house destroyed by a wild fire several miles north of Santa Monica, California; ima…
Injured Fireman Carried Out
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1943
Black and white photograph showing an injured firefighter being carried out of a burning hotel in New York City, New York; image likely appeared in a…
Fire Destroys Two Plants
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1946
Black and white photograph showing firefighters battling a blaze at two adjoining manufacturing plants in surburban Chicago, Illinois; image likely a…
Victim of Tenement Fire
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1946
Black and white photograph showing firefighters carrying the body of a woman from a New York City, New York tenement after a three-alarm blaze; image…
Fight 4-Alarm Blaze in Freezing Weather
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1946
Black and white photograph showing firefighters fighting a four alarm fire in an unoccupied building in New York, New York; image likely appeared in …
Five Die in Poughkeepsie Fire
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1935
Black and white photograph showing firefighters rescuing a woman from a fatal fire in an apartment house in Poughkeepsie, New York; image likely appe…
Summer Colony Destroyed By Fire
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1945
Black and white photograph showing remaining smoke after fire destroyed more than 200 cottages at Alton Bay, New Hampshire; image likely appeared in …
Durham Warehouse District Gutted By Fire
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1944
Black and white photograph showing remains of the tobacco warehouse district in Durham, North Carolina after a fire swept through the entire block; i…
Searching Wreckage For Victims
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1945
Black and white photograph showing workmen removing wreckage from a house crushed by a landslide in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, in order to search for …
Fire's Aftermath
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1945
Black and white photograph of a firefighter looking at an apartment house covered with ice as the result of a fire in Chicago, Illinois; image likely…
![[Fire in Staunton Theater]](https://cdn.yesterdays.maprva.org/images/38908/1/thumbnail.webp)
[Fire in Staunton Theater]
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1936
Black and white photograph showing the aftermath of a fire in a theater in Staunton, Virginia; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virginia newspape…
Strategy in Fighting Oil Well Fire
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1938
Black and white photograph showing firefighters battling a blaze in an oil well in Kilgore, Texas; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virginia news…
Fireboats Fight Million Dollar Pier Fire
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1944
Black and white photograph showing Coast Guard and New York City fireboats pouring water on the smoking remains of Pier 4, Hoboken, New Jersey; image…
Defense Store of Rubber Goes Up in Smoke At Fall …
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1941
Black and white photograph showing a fire in progress at the Firestone plant in Fall River, Massachusetts; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virgi…
Aerial View of Blaze Which Swept Through a Chemic…
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1946
Black and white photograph showing an aerial view of fire in progress at a chemical plant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; image likely appeared in a R…
Oil Blaze Defies 600 Firemen
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1938
Black and white photograph showing a fire in progress at the Sinclair Oil Company refining plant in Wellsville, New York; image likely appeared in a …
Flames Sweep Palisades Amusement Park
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1944
Black and white photograph showing the aftermath of a fire at the Palisades Amusement Park in Cliffside, New Jersey; image likely appeared in a Richm…