Lawrence Public Library

Plymouth Mills photograph collection, 1911

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Plymouth Mills photograph collection

Two sepia photographs, mounted on stiff gray stock (images: 15 x 20 cm. and mount, 25 x 30 cm.) of the fire at the brick storehouse of Plymouth Fibre Mills (formerly the American Fibre Matting Co.) plant on Marston Street, Lawrence, Mass., 25 Jan. 1911. The building and its contents (bales of woolen thread and rolls of matting) were considered a total loss., First photograph (missing upper right hand corner of mount) shows horse drawn fire engines at the scene of the fire. The second (piece of photograph in upper middle missing) shows building surrounded by smoke, hoses, and fire department personnel in action