This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/26/2020
Hartford Circus Fire Photos and Newspapers Archive. Research archive of 23 snapshots and a stack of approximately 20 newspapers and clippings depicting and reporting on the deadly 1944 circus fire and its aftermath. Eight of the snapshots are printed on Velox paper (3 ½ x 4 ¾”), ten on Kodak paper (7 x 5” sheets, images 4 ¾ x 4 1/8”), and five are modern reprints. Newspapers include two different Friday, July 7 editions of the Hartford Courant in which the news breaks, as well as the Saturday issue; the Friday issue of the New Haven Evening Register; and accounts in other newspapers. Accompanying the lot is a 1967 letter to Al Halpern from Thomas C. Barber, a detective on the Hartford Police Department, regarding one of the victims, the long-unidentified girl known as Little Miss 1565 who died in the fire, whose grave Barber regularly visited for the rest of his life.