Image: Lubin employees surveying destruction of film vault, June 1914

Description: Photograph of vault "custodian" Stanley Lowry (foreground) surveying the devastation of the Lubin Manufacturing Company's film vault from fire and explosions, which occurred on June 13, 1914 at its "Lubinville" studio and film-processing plant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the image was taken by unidentified Lubin photographer likely on June 14, the day after the disaster; the brick remains (upper right) of one of the vault's five units can be seen, along with four other Lubin employees assisting Lowry in his search for anything salvageable; also shown (left) directly across the street from the vault's fire and blast area are demolished cars and parts of the 10 row houses (private residences) that were destroyed or heavily damaged in the disaster; image published in the Chicago-based trade journal Motography, 11 July 1912, p. 64; caption accompanying image reads, "Stanley Lowry, who was custodian of the Lubin vaults, viewing the ruins of $500,000 worth of films"; screenshot of photograph captured and cropped for page formatting by Wikipedia contributor Strudjum on 21 September 2021.
Title: Lubin employees surveying destruction of film vault, June 1914
Credit: Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/motography12elec/page/64/mode/2up
Author: Unidentified photographer for the Lubin Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1914
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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