Hartford Circus Fire: Men Outside Smoking Ruins
DateJuly 6, 1944
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver print on paper
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
DescriptionTwo young men, one of them wearing a beaked cap, stand in the foreground. Two firemen in uniform are at the right. Another man, apparently wearing a military uniform, is at the left. Water shoots from a fire hose at the right. Smoke rises from bleachers, visible in the left background. Trailers are in the right background.
Object number1988.134.3-K
InscribedOn verso, at left stamped in blue ink, "HOYE / 397 CEDAR ST. / NEWINGTON, CONN. 06111"; handwritten at top in pencil, "[Hartford Circus fire 7-6-1944]"; Accession number in pencil bottom right corner.
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July 6, 1944
July 6, 1944
