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RECORD NUMBER   NYJA000721
  513 of 894  
SERIES TITLE   B. Subject
BOX NUMBER   B091
FOLDER TITLE   Circuses -- Fire, 1944
ITEM TITLE   Makeshift Morgue
ITEM CAPTION   Awaiting viewing by victims' family members, soldiers and sailors stand guard in the State Armory over cots containing the covered bodies of over 140 of the dead from the fire which destroyed the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Connecticut.
CATEGORY   Accidents & Disasters
Health & Medicine
Human Interest & Lifestyle
Military
DATE PUBLISHED   1944-07-07
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