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1925-1949
Box 6, Negatives 1007 - 1019
GUSN-331033
This subseries includes glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives of three famous disasters in New England. Images include scenes of the Hollis St. Theatre collapse during its demolition on September 18, 1935 and of the Pickwick Club collapse, where 44 people died when the floor of a dance club fell in. The subseries also includes an image of a wreck of a roller coaster at Nantasket Beach
negatives (photographic)
13 glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives
PC053
Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950
PC053.01.33
Yankee Publishing Incorporated
negatives (photographic)
Sub-series
Box 6, Negatives 1007 - 1019
This subseries is arranged into three cartegories, the Pickwick Club, the Hollis Street Theatre, and Nantasket Beach
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