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Fire Victims in Garage Morgue
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1943
Black and white photograph showing police and fire officials attempting to identify bodies taken from a burned hotel in New York City, New York; imag…
After Hospital Blaze
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1945
Black and white photograph showing a firefighter shoveling debris at the bottom of a staircase after a fire at the Niles Street Hospital in Hartford,…
Government Probes War Work Plant Fire
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1942
Black and white photograph showing firefighters battling a blaze at two yarn mills involved in making Army cloth in Pawtucket, Rhode Island; image li…
Firemen Fight Philadelphia Fire
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1946
Black and white photograph showing firefighters battling a five alarm warehouse fire in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; image likely appeared in a Richmo…
![[After Hospital Fire]](https://cdn.yesterdays.maprva.org/images/38943/1/thumbnail.webp)
[After Hospital Fire]
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1935
Black and white photograph showing the aftermath of a fire in a hospital (?); image of charred remains of bedframes in large room; image likely appea…
Fighting A Fire On A Hudson River Pier
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1944
Black and white photograph showing fireboats pouring water on a fire at Pier 4 in Hoboken, New Jersey; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virginia …
$300,000 Box Mill Fire
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1946
Black and white photograph of a fire in progress at the Bath Box Company in Bath, Maine; image likely appeared in a Richmond, Virginia newspaper. In…
Where Two Died In Resort Fire
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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]
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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…
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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…
Inferno in Mid-Air
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1941
Black and white photograph showing smoke and flames shooting into the air from an exploded oil tank in Wellsville, New York; image likely appeared in…
![[Jersey City Fire]](https://cdn.yesterdays.maprva.org/images/38952/1/thumbnail.webp)
[Jersey City Fire]
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1941
Black and white photograph showing smoke and flames shooting into the air from a fire near the rail station in Jersey City, New Jersey; image likely …
Flames Sweep Parking Lot
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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]
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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…
Million Gallon Alcohol Fire in New Orleans
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1933
Black and white photograph showing firefighters battling a blaze at the United States Industrial Alcohol Company in New Orleans, Louisiana; image lik…
Fire Sweeps Paint Plant
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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…
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1946
Black and white photograph showing firefighters helping guests from the burning Canfield Hotel in Dubuque, Iowa; image likely appeared in a Richmond,…