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Tank Cars Blaze After Train Wreck
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1943
Black and white photograph showing three railroad tank cars on fire after colliding with a passenger train in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; image likely…
Fire Damages Tinker Field Hanger
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1946
Black and white photograph showing a fire in progress in the main hanger at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; image likely appeared in a Richmon…
Gas Plant Fire Threatens Nearby Buildings
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1943
Black and white photograph showing firefighters and air raid wardens working the scene of a fire at the Easton, Pennsylvania gas works; image likely …
Flames Eat Up $5,000,000
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1938
Black and white photograph showing a forest fire sweeping through homes in the Pacific Palisades sector north of Santa Monica, California; image like…
Fire-Ravaged Hallway of Chicago's Congress Hotel
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1946
Black and white photograph showing firefighters clearing away smoking timbers from a hallway inside the Congress Hotel in Chicago, Illinois; image li…
Another Fire in Boston
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1942
Black and white photograph showing a fire in progress at the Armory Building in Boston, Massachusetts; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virginia …
Wrecked Railroad Terminal
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1943
Black and white photograph showing the aftermath of an eight alarm fire which swept through Broad Street Station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; image…
Navy Boat Aflame
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1942
Black and white photograph showing the U.S.S. Prairie at the height of a fire which swept her decks while docked at Argentia, Newfoundland, Canada; i…
Chemicals Feed Factory Blaze
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1942
Black and white photograph showing spectators watching from their backyards as flames rage through a Chicago, Illinois factory; image likely appeared…
Victim Carried From Seattle Sanitarium Fire
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1943
Black and white photograph showing a fire victim being carried from the Lake Forest Sanitarium in Seattle, Washington; image likely appeared in a Ric…
Blaze Destroys Loft Building
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1943
Black and white photograph showing firefighters battling a three alarm fire on Water Street in New York City, New York; image likely appeared in a Ri…
Guests on Upper Floors See Flames Below
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1946
Black and white photograph showing firefighters battling a fire in a multi-story hotel building; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virginia newspa…
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[Fire in Brooklyn]
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1941
Black and white photograph showing smoke billowing from a structure on fire in Brooklyn, New York; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virginia news…
Forty Escape Terrifying Blaze
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1944
Black and white photograph showing the aftermath of a collision between a streetcar and a gasoline transport in Kansas City, Kansas; image likely app…
Fall River Fire Thirty-Six Hours After
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1941
Black and white photograph showing smoke rolling up from the Firestone Rubber and Latex Corporation at Fall River, Massachusetts, thirty-six hours af…
Ice Coats Burned Rail Station
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1943
Black and white photograph showing ice covering remains of the passenger rail station in downtown Burlington, Iowa after a fire destroyed the buildin…
Fire Sweeps Massachusetts Town
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1933
Black and white photograph showing the aftermath of a fire which swept through Lowell, Massachusetts; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virginia n…
Fire Destroys Washington's Center Market
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1946
Black and white photograph showing the aftermath of a fire that destroyed the Center Market in Washington, D. C.; image likely appeared in a Richmond…
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[Fire in Boarding House]
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1934
Black and white photograph showing firefighters battling a blaze in a multi-story brick rooming house in New York City, New York; image likely appear…
Massachusetts Workers Flee Flames
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1943
Black and white photograph showing workers evacuating the Omaha Packing Company plant during a fire in Lowell, Massachusetts; image likely appeared i…
Wild Oil Well Blazes
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1937
Black and white photograph showing flames shooting from an oil well in Los Angeles, California; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virginia newspap…
Brush Fires Threaten Homes
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1942
Black and white photograph showing homeowners removing furniture from homes as a brush fire moves in from the hills north of Santa Monica, California…
Gutted Lobby in Hotel Tragedy
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1946
Black and white photograph showing the aftermath of a fire at the Canfield Hotel in Dubuque, Iowa; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virginia news…
Four Alarm Blaze Sweeps Warehouse
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1946
Black and white photograph showing firefighters battling a four alarm blaze in a tobacco warehouse in New York City, New York; image likely appeared …