Original 1947 AP wire photo showing firefighters battling a massive warehouse fire on South Street near the East River in New York City. The original AP caption identifies the blaze as occurring in a five-story brick warehouse occupied by the Wade Iron Piping Company and the Harris Warehouse Company. The photograph is mounted on black archival paper with an overall size of approximately 10¼" x 13½". The mount is irregularly cut and shows edge wear, along with handling wear, corner wear, and creasing consistent with age and newspaper use. This wire photo came from the archive of a Pittsburgh-area newspaper. Please see photos.
