Original Associated Press wire photo showing massive fires raging through Probolinggo Harbor on the northeast coast of Java in July 1947. Towering columns of smoke rise over the harbor as Dutch marines watch the blaze from a truck in the foreground. The original AP caption notes the image was transmitted by radio from Singapore to London and then to New York. The photograph is mounted on black archival paper with the original AP caption attached separately below the image. Overall mounted size is approximately 8½ × 7½ inches. This photograph came from the archive of a Pittsburgh area newspaper. Please see photos.
