HomeCollection FP-0007Brownstone Fire

Brownstone Fire

FP-0007-SL-S01-010 · slide
Date
Dec 27, 1983 Confirmed
Film
Agfachrome
Lab
Unknown
Mount
Plastic
Place
Back Bay Marlborough St Confirmed
People
Unknown People
Tags
Bostonfirefirefightersrowhouse

Firefighters work an aerial ladder against a brick rowhouse as pale smoke pours from its mansard roof; a gas-style streetlamp burns in the foreground. The slide is deeply magenta-faded.

Research

A Boston Fire Department response at a brick, mansard-roofed rowhouse with a gas lamp - a South End / Beacon Hill building type; exact address unknown.

Open question

Street and date of the fire?

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