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Remove Body of Fire Victim
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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…
Crowd Flees Burning Circus Tent
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1944
Black and white photograph showing men, women and children fleeing a burning circus tent in Hartford, Connecticut; image likely appeared in a Richmon…
Firemen Battle New Haven Railroad Blaze
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1944
Black and white photograph showing firefighters battling a blaze in the railroad yard at New Haven, Connecticut; image likely appeared in a Richmond,…
Grain Elevator Burns
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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…
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Tenement Houses Burn After [Bomber Cra]sh
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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
Finnegan Photograph Collection
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
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1945
Black and white photograph of firefighters battling a blaze near the Key Bridge in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia; image like…
Hospital Inmate Rescued From Fire
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1945
Black and white photograph of firefighters carrying a woman to safety during a fire at the Niles Street Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut; image like…
Fire Buckles Freight Cars
Finnegan Photograph Collection
1944
Black and white photograph of a Coast Guard fireboat battling a blaze near the freight rail yard at Hampton Roads, Virginia; image likely appeared in…
"Operation Cue"
Finnegan Photograph Collection
5/5/1955
Black and white photograph (#423) showing a "Living room scene in 2-story wood frame house at 5500' before Operation Cue's atomic blast." Inscriptio…
"Operation Cue"
Finnegan Photograph Collection
5/5/1955
Black and white photograph (#476) showing "Field exercise participants in Operation Cue crouch[ing] in trench at Position Baker, 2 miles from Ground …
"Operation Cue"
Finnegan Photograph Collection
5/5/1955
Black and white photograph (#477) showing "Two-story brick house at 4700' awaiting Operation Cue atomic blast." Inscription: Stamped __"(FCDA Photo)…
"Operation Cue"
Finnegan Photograph Collection
5/5/1955
Black and white photograph (#582) showing "Two-story wood frame house facing blast at 5500', Operation Cue." Inscription: Stamped __"(FCDA Photo)" _…
"Operation Cue"
Finnegan Photograph Collection
5/5/1955
Black and white photograph (#680) showing "FCDA Administrator Val Peterson [being interviewed] at observer area of Operation Cue atomic blast." Insc…
"Operation Cue"
Finnegan Photograph Collection
5/5/1955
Black and white photograph (#689) showing "Civil defense rescue crews [extricating] manikins [sic] from demolished 2-story brick house 4700' from bla…
"Operation Cue"
Finnegan Photograph Collection
5/5/1955
Black and white photograph (#702) showing "Operation Cue Atomic blast a few seconds after detonation." Inscription: Stamped __"(FCDA Photo)" __Verso…
"Operation Cue"
Finnegan Photograph Collection
5/5/1955
Black and white photograph (#737) showing a "Two-story wood frame house at 5500' after atomic blast of Operation Cue." Inscription: Stamped __"(FCDA…
"Operation Cue"
Finnegan Photograph Collection
5/5/1955
Black and white photograph (#755) showing "Wreckage of 2-story brick house at 4700' in foreground; other debris of Operation Cue blast in background …
"Operation Cue"
Finnegan Photograph Collection
5/5/1955
Black and white photograph (#813) showing a "Living room scene in 2-story wood frame house at 5500' after Operation Cue's atomic blast." Inscription…