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Home Fire at Plimpton & Hills Corporation, 2 South Ann Street, Hartford, July 23, 1907.

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Title	Fire at Plimpton & Hills Corporation, 2 South Ann Street, Hartford, July 23, 1907.
Place	Park River (Conn.) 2 South Ann Street (Hartford, Conn.)
Topic	Industrial buildings Fires Plumbing -- Equipment and supplies
Genre	Postcards
Theme	Infrastructure Livelihood
Description	Smoke issues from the upper windows of a brick industrial building with a square tower. Firemen on the roof at the right spray water on the blaze. A crowd of onlookers stands near a steam fire engine on the far bank of the Park River, which is lined with trees and bushes. Typewritten inscription beneath image: "We are still doing business at / the old stand. / Plimpton & Hills Corp." Typewritten address on back: "R.G. Speirs, / Hartford, / Conn." Postmarked "Jul 25 / 1907."
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. Plimpton & Hills Corp. at 2 South Ann Street were manufacturers of plumbing supplies. A fire on July 23, 1907 caused damage of $22,500. Robert G. Speirs was a plumber located at 27 Albany Avenue.
Date created	1907.
Physical format	1 photographic print ; 14 x 9 cm.
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number 1989.68.0 File name 2824 img0014.pcd
Source	The Connecticut Historical Society.
Rights	Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Graphics Collection, The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
Sub-collection	Photographs

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