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1908 Chelsea Massachusetts Fire Disaster Archive Documenting of Burned Churches Schools Hospitals and Civic Infrastructure

1908ref. 232131908. Chelsea fire real photo postcard archive documenting the destruction of civic religious medical and financial institutions in Chelsea outside of Boston Massachusetts after the November 1908 fire one of the most destructive urban fires in early twentieth century New England. This collection displays not only the ruined architecture but on the functions that had to be reestablished after the fire including places of worship schooling banking and medical care. Not only do these images display a developing New England city in ruins but the involvement of the surrounding community that was left displaced to pick up the pieces. Photo archive of 12 silver gelatin real photo postcards each 3" x 5.5" Chelsea Massachusetts circa 1908. The cards show skeletal masonry walls roofless church towers leveled residential blocks ash fields and streets lined with stripped tree trunks and scattered debris. Printed captions identify multiple sites including "Ruins of Unitarian Church Chelsea Mass." "Universalist Church Fourth & Chestnut St." "Ruins of Fay School Chelsea Mass." "Ruins of Public Library" "Central Church from Broadway Chelsea Mass." "Ruins of Williams School & First Universalist Church Chelsea Mass." and "Remains of Frost Hospital." Several views are wide panoramas taken from elevated ground or across open lots showing block after block reduced to foundations and chimneys while others isolate single institutional buildings left standing as shells. Human figures appear throughout as scale markers and witnesses with pedestrians moving through cleared streets and one especially important card showing uniformed cadets and coast artillery guards with rifles outside the Chelsea Savings Bank. The Great Chelsea Fire burned through a substantial section of the city in 1908 and displaced thousands making it one of the most destructive urban fires in New England in its period. These postcards preserve the public facing record created immediately after the disaster when churches schools hospitals libraries and banks were photographed not as isolated ruins but as essential parts of a city whose institutional framework had to be defended and rebuilt. Some edge and corner wear; minor toning. Overall very good condition. A concentrated record of urban destruction emergency security and civic reconstruction in Chelsea Massachusetts. unknown

Max Rambod Inc. · Estados Unidos550,00 US$≈ 490,41 €

Chelsea Massachusetts FireABAA

1908 Chelsea Massachusetts Fire Disaster Archive Documenting of Burned Churches Schools Hospitals and Civic Infrastructure

Max Rambod Inc. · Estados Unidos550,00 US$≈ 490,41 €

Fire, A, S Xu, M K Montgomery, S A Kostas, S E Driver, & C C MelloBiblio.com

Potent and Specific Genetic Interference by Double-Stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans in Nature 391 February 19 1998 pp. 806-811 LANDMARK DISCOVERY OF RNA INTERFERENCE RNAi

1998ref. 1696London: Macmillan & Sons 1998. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE LANDMARK DISCOVERY OF RNA INTERFERENCE RNAi A FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISM OF GENE REGULATION. RNAi became both a major research tool and a new class of therapeutics. In terms of impact on biology medicine and biotechnology this paper is considered a foundational discovery not just an incremental advance. Fire and Mello won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine IN 2006 just eight years after publication unusually fast recognition for how transformative it was. Prior to Fire and Mello's paper researchers knew that injecting antisense RNA into C. elegans could sometimes silence genes but the effect was often weak inconsistent and poorly understood. Fire and Mello showed that the actual trigger was double-stranded RNA dsRNA not single-stranded antisense RNA as had been assumed. They found that dsRNA was far more potent than either sense or antisense strands alone effective at just a few molecules per cell that it could silence genes with striking specificity that the effect could spread between cells and even to offspring and that it worked catalytically rather than stoichiometrically - implying an amplification mechanism. The discovery that RNAi is a natural evolutionarily conserved gene-regulation and antiviral defense mechanism found across plants animals and fungi. The rapid development of RNAi as a laboratory tool for knocking down specific genes to study their function - now a standard technique in virtually every molecular biology lab. CONDITION & DETAILS: London: Macmillan & Co. Nature Volume 391 No. 6669. Original Wraps. 10 x 7 inches; 250 x 175mm. Original paper wraps. Bearing the mail sticker of Robert R. Rofen the American ichthyologist. Bright and clean inside and out. Fine condition in every way. Macmillan & Sons paperback

Atticus Rare Books · Estados Unidos625,00 US$≈ 557,29 €

Fire Department ModernizationBiblio.com

Modernizing Fire Departments in Massachusetts and the Northeast Archive of 33 Photos Documenting the Transition from Horse-Drawn Steam Engines to Modern Automotive Fire Trucks 1910-1940s

1910ref. 233921910. TechnologyRescue Operations American fire engine modernization archive documenting the transition from horse drawn steam engines to motorized trucks and rescue wagons in Massachusetts and across the Northeast between the 1910s and 1940s. Fire departments across the U.S. began to transition from horses and steam pumpers to gasoline powered apparatus to account for urban growth taller buildings electrical wiring and automobile traffic changing the speed and scale of emergency response. The archive records identified departments and apparatus makers including Mack GMC Ford Seagrave Studebaker American LaFrance and Maxim mostly showing departments across Massachusetts departments and with additional images from New York Pennsylvania New Jersey Rhode Island and Vermont. Photo archive of 33 silver gelatin photographs many with captions ranging from 2 x 3 to 4 x 6 inches chiefly Massachusetts with additional material from Vermont Pennsylvania New York New Jersey and Rhode Island 1910s to 1940s. Fire engines and firefighters appear in station fronts street parades apparatus portraits airport grounds and active fire scenes. Captions identify New York City Rescue 1 Mack; Syracuse Rescue 1 GMC; Highland Park Pennsylvania Rescue 2 Mack; Plainfield New Jersey Rescue GMC; Chelmsford Massachusetts Emergency No. 7 Studebaker; Camp Edwards Massachusetts Mack Engine 4; Needham Massachusetts Mack Engine 3; Lawrence Massachusetts Engine 3 American LaFrance; Boston Ladder 8 Ladder 9 and Ladder 21; Cambridge Engine 3; Canton Massachusetts Mack engine; Shrewsbury Massachusetts Engine 3 and Ladder 3; Barrington Vermont; Stoneham Massachusetts Bell Block; River Street Boston; First Scientist Church Somerville; and Fort House Somerville. Horse drawn apparatus appears outside Hope No. 1 in Pittsburgh and in a parade scene while motorized ladder trucks carry long wooden extension ladders hose reels searchlights bells sirens polished pumps and side mounted tools. The images provide a side by side record of old and new fire protection: horse teams exposed steam machinery open cab ladder trucks and later motorized emergency vehicles. Chas. E. Beckwith's Fire Dept. Photographer stamp connects at least part of the group to a specialist working for Massachusetts fire departments. Photographs stapled to eight disbound black album pages; scattered fading handling wear with legible captions. Some with additional handwritten captions on versos. Overall in good condition. unknown