Thank you! My neighborhood is rife with antique / collectible shops, I'll give them a try. At 01:33 PM 3/6/03, Halloween Queen wrote: >Lisa, there are all types of postcards of the Salem fire and they are very >easy to find and very low in price. Go to any postcard show or shop that >sells postcards in your area and you will find many in the Salem section or >under fires or disasters. If you want places in your area let me know and I >will try and give you some. Pamela >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Lisa Small" <LMS6@georgetown.edu> >To: <SALEM-WITCH-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:01 PM >Subject: [SALEM-WITCH-L] Salem Fire in 1914 > > > > Although it is several centuries after our interest in Salem, I ran across > > a photo today at the Library of Congress that many members of the list may > > want to see. There was a devastating fire in 1914. To see a panoramic > > photo, go here: > > > > http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/d?pan:20:./temp/~ammem_8NN4: > > > > AND MAKE SURE YOU DON'T LOSE THE COLON OFF THE END OF THE URL!!! > > > > Then go to Photo 37 by using the "NEXT PAGE" link at the bottom of the >page > > you're taken to. > > Click on Photo 37 to get to an info page with a small picture. > > Click on the small picture to see a larger version of the kind of physical > > devastation most of us will be spared in our lives. > > > > Knowing this is Salem, the photo affected me not so much as representation > > of physical devastation, but as a metaphor for the spiritual devastation >of > > the town after the 1692 trials. > > > > -- Lisa > > > >