Big. Washington storm. During the crowded lunch hour between 1 and 1:30 o'clock today, the oil burner in the basement of McCrory's Five and Ten Cent Store exploded, through parts of the machinery to opposite side of the street and making a great hole in the center of the building, The four alar
4 x 5 in. or smaller
- Date
- 1929
- Collection
- Harris & Ewing
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 9,756 × 7,752 pixels
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"Big. Washington storm. During the crowded lunch hour between 1 and 1:30 o'clock today, the oil burner in the basement of McCrory's Five and Ten Cent Store exploded, through parts of the machinery to opposite side of the street and making a great hole in the center of the building, The four alar" (1929). Harris & Ewing. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Big_(...)_Washington_storm._During_the_crowded_lunch_hour_between_1_and_1-30_o%27clock_today,_the_oil_burner_in_the_basement_of_McCrory%27s_Five_and_Ten_Cent_Store_exploded,_through_parts_of_the_LCCN2016889513.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 272930.
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