[Charles B. Hinds—home movies] Reel 6

Date1934

AbstractSnowstorm with fire in large building. Firefighters, smoke, power lines. No more snow, continuing roof fire, factory fire, adjacent building. Brown Co.'s Wharf sign. Views of wreckage. Equipment. Wharf. Sailing vessel next to burnt area. Boy in knickers, men in coats, firefighter investigators. Views of Brown Company Lumber building on fire at 35 mins. Probably December 6, 1934, fire at Portland waterfront burning New England Grain Company on Hobson's wharf and the Brown Company wharf. (For more on Brown Company in Berlin, NH, see Brown Company Collection.)