Name/Title
B+W photo of firemen at destroyed warehouse near Holland America Line, 5th & 6th Sts., Hoboken, Nov. 6, 1931.Entry/Object ID
2013.001.0063Description
Black-and-white photo of firemen at destroyed warehouse near Holland America Line pier, Fifth & Sixth Streets, Hoboken, November 6, 1931.
8" x 10" wide print. Photograph taken by Acme Newspictures, Inc., New York. Reverse has their credit stamp; mimeographed caption (text below); reference file stamp of N.E.A. [Newspaper Editors Association] dated Nov 12, 1931.
View is north - northeast of the firemen with hose lines inside the charred remains of the Hoboken Shore Railroad Freight Car building. At the upper right is the Campbell Stores warehouse.
See photo 2013.001.0062 for a different image earlier the same day. The ocean liner S.S. Statendam of the Holland America Line caught fire, but was rescued. (With that record is a reference image of a page one article from The Sun (New York), Nov. 6, 1931 which discusses how the fire started and how the S.S. United States of the Scandinavian American Line was also involved.
Caption on reverse:
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PIER BLAZE MENACES LINER.
Quick work on the part of officers and crew saved the Holland-America liner Statendam from possible destruction, Nov. 6th, in a fire that burned seven freight cars, part of a Hoboken, New Jersey pier and the ship's forward mast. High wind drove the flames toward the ship, which was backed into the Hudson River and away from the fire by officers and crew. Photo shows firemen dousing the flames.
CREDIT LINE (ACME) 11/6/31
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Museum Collections.General Notes
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Original or Copy: Original
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2013-11-20
