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To quote Nik in one of his last comments "those films are sometimes in rough shape because nitrate is unstable and will sometimes eat up the film" if you look at the center bottom of the image you can see the nitrate flames starting to eat away the image. Title: Night incendiary I claim no rights to this image other than I colorized it. Title Night incindiary [i.e., incendiary] of coal and lumber yards near railroad station, showing fireman with water-hose Contributor Names American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept., photographer Created / Published 1938 August. Format Headings Nitrate negatives. Notes - Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. - Caption continues from catalog: August 21-22, 1938. - Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978. Medium 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 in. Call Number/Physical Location LC-M33- 9814 [P&P] Source Collection G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection Repository Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Digital Id matpc 18666 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/matpc.18666 Control Number mpc2010004155/PP Reproduction Number LC-DIG-matpc-18666 (digital file from original photo) Rights Advisory No known restrictions on publication.