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[Firemen in Reliance building during fire, New York City] – Historic Photograph Print

[Firemen in Reliance building during fire, New York City], [between ca. 1910 and 1916] — historic photograph
[Firemen in Reliance building during fire, New York City], [between ca. 1910 and 1916]. 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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Firefighters are shown at work inside the Reliance building in New York City during a blaze, a moment the record places sometime between about 1910 and 1916. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the archive of the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers and magazines in those years. Its quick, documentary look reflects the news photography of the period, when fire scenes drew crowds and press attention. The record does not name the specific fire, so the image is best read as a view of how urban firefighting looked in the early 1910s, with hose lines, crews, and smoke-filled interiors.

Created / published[between ca. 1910 and 1916]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesGeorge Grantham Bain Collection.
SubjectsFire fighters--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,270 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-178848

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