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Vintage RPPC – Fire Scene, North Bessemer, Pennsylvania
Real photo postcard capturing the aftermath of a fire, with smoke still rising from the charred ruins of a building at center right. A large painted wall sign reading \"Bessemer\" and \"Ladies\' and Children\'s\" survives above the smoldering wreckage. A crowd of men, women, and children in period dress gathers in the street to watch, with a ladder propped against a building near the ruins. Two-story frame storefronts with porches line the left side, where a horse-drawn buggy is parked, and houses stand on the bare hillside behind. Railroad tracks run across the foreground, with utility poles along the street. Unused and unposted, with a later ink notation on the back identifying the location as North Bessemer, PA. A great piece for collectors of North Bessemer and Allegheny County topographical postcards, fire and disaster scenes, or early small-town street life.
