Original 1947 Associated Press wire photo measuring 8⅜ x 6 inches. The original caption is printed directly on the front of the photograph. This striking image shows a soldier surveying the charred ruins of the Hotel Malvern in Bar Harbor, Maine, after catastrophic forest fires swept through the town on October 24, 1947. Only brick chimneys and scattered rubble remained after one of the most destructive wildfire disasters in Maine history, which devastated Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island. A powerful documentary photograph of the aftermath. From the archive of a Pittsburgh area newspaper.
