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Firemen spraying burning building on 14th St., trolley in foreground, New York – Antique Photo Print

Firemen spraying burning building on 14th St., trolley in foreground, New York, 12/20/09. — historic photograph
Firemen spraying burning building on 14th St., trolley in foreground, New York, 12/20/09.. Historic photograph from the Fire Engines collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Firemen spraying burning building on 14th St., trolley in foreground, New York, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Firemen spraying burning building on 14th St., trolley in foreground, New York

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Firemen playing water on a burning building on 14th Street in New York, with a streetcar in the foreground, places the blaze within everyday city traffic. The negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers in the early 1900s. The record dates it to December 20, 1909, but the title comes from unverified caption data, so the location and date are best treated as provisional. Scenes like this show how fire fighting and electric streetcars shared crowded avenues before motorized apparatus replaced horse-drawn engines.

Created / published12/20/09.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesForms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,810 × 4,260 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-5681

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