Port Chester NY Fire June 22 1908 RPPC Real Photo Postcard Disaster Ruins Crowd For Sale

A striking real photo postcard documenting the Port Chester, New York fire of June 22, 1908, showing the gutted brick shell of a downtown building with its collapsed upper floors, a crowd of derby-hatted onlookers in the street, and a lineman working on a utility pole amid the wreckage. The in-negative caption reads 'PORTCHESTER FIRE JUNE 22ND 08' and a pencil note on the front identifies the destroyed structure as the Bunce building.

• Real photo postcard (RPPC) of the Port Chester, NY fire dated June 22, 1908
• In-negative caption and handwritten note identify the ruined Bunce building
• Crowd of onlookers, period W.L. Douglas Shoes advertising billboard, and lineman on pole visible
• Postally used with a Port Chester cancel and 1c Franklin stamp
• Divided-back era; light wear, small emulsion spot, mild soiling

Real photo postcard, sepia-toned, with light corner wear, a small emulsion spot near center and mild soiling. In-negative caption 'PORTCHESTER FIRE JUNE 22ND 08' at lower left; pencil message and address on back; postally used with 1c Franklin and a Port Chester cancel.

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