Name/Title
B+W photo of firemen at destroyed warehouse near Holland America Line, 5th & 6th Sts., Hoboken, Nov. 6, 1931.Entry/Object ID
2014.001.0132Description
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 and nearby the Campbell Stores warehouse. The scene is on River Road (note railroad tracks in the cobblestoned street) approximately between Fifth and Sixth Streets.
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.)
Also see photo 2014.001.0132
Caption on reverse:
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$500,000 FIRE SWEEPS HOBOKEN DOCK.
A spectacular fire cause $500,000 damage along the Hoboken, N.J. waterfront today, and while it burned a number of minor explosions occurred, arousing New York across the Hudson River, and affording a thrilling show for thousands massed on skyscraper roofs and windows of mid-Manhattan. The fire was reported to have started in a freight car, spreading rapidly through the freight station and setting fire to the liner Statendam which was moored in the path of the flames. The liner was towed into the Hudson where the blaze was quickly extinguished from her rigging. Here is a view as the firefighters fought to control the flames on the pier.
CREDIT LINE (ACME) 11/6/31
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Original or Copy: Original
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2014-05-09
