City Hall, N.Y. on fire - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Summary
Photograph shows a fire in the wooden cupola of City Hall caused by a fire in a nearby charcoal pot that workers had failed to put out before leaving the site on May 10, 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
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Date
01/01/1917
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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