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Man on Tall Ladder

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Description: Fire fighting scene in which a man is at the top of a very tall ladder mounted on a hook and ladder fire truck. A group of men observe. A haze of smoke fil...
Photograph

International VCO-202A Fire and Rescue Truck Battling Fire

Date: 1963
Description: Fire fighters use an International fire and rescue truck with an eighty-five foot mounted ladder to fight a fire, possibly as part of a training exercise. ...
Photograph

Burned Out Gateway truck

Date: 02 22 1942
Description: Close-up view of the burned out cab af a Gateway truck in a repair shop.
Photograph

Chapman Home Interior after Fire

Date: 12 29 1932
Description: Chandler B. and Frances Chapman home, 640 N. Carroll Street, west bathroom, after fire.
Photograph

Fire Damaged Texaco Station

Date: 01 17 1931
Description: Fire-damaged furnace and pump room in Texaco service station.
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Lymon Schley in Hospital

Date: 10 27 1930
Description: Lymon Schley, cottage fire burn victim, smoking a cigarette in the hospital.
Photograph

Heidelberg Hofbrau Restaurant after Fire

Date: 12 06 1946
Description: Heidelberg Hofbrau Restaurant, exterior view, with crowds of people looking at aftermath of a fire, 20 West Mifflin Street. Also shows The Hub, a mens' clo...
Photograph

Holly Springs Baptist College Burning

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Description: Charred remains of a Baptist College after having been burned.
Print

Christmas Card

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Description: Four-fold, copy art Christmas card made by Sid with two photographs of damaged commercial buildings after a fire. In one image, Sid stands on the slushy st...
Photograph

Newhall House Fire

Date: 01 1883
Description: Photograph of an engraved image showing an elevated view of the Newhall House fire. A large crowd is gathered in the foreground observing the fire and fire...
Drawing

Third Fight with the Iroquois

Date: 1615
Description: Illustration of the Huron Indians and French explorers attacking an Iroquois fort near present day Fenner, New York. A wooden platform was constructed to f...
Photograph

Indian Fire Dance

Date: 1952
Description: A Native American man performing a fire dance at Camp Decorah.
Photograph

Nature's Cycle

Date: 1964
Description: A pine seedling is growing, in contrast, to a burned tree trunk which has a tree hollow at its base.

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