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Resource type: Photographic
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Name of original file: West Thessaloniki ablaze
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Description: Black and white photograph of west Thessaloniki ablaze on the morning of 19th August 1917.
Correlation: The photograph shows the destruction of the city during the fire of 1917 which eventually lead to the planning and design of new masterplans and buildings, including the Port Administration Headquarters Building in 1939.
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Notes: Starting with one house at the beginning of Ayiou Dimitriou street, the fire destroyed, with the help of the Vardaris (a strong north wind), 250 acres of building area, 9,500 houses and most of the city's churches, banks, schools, printing presses, hotels and shops. It left 72,000 people homeless, two thirds of whom were Jews. The fire wiped out the traditional, cosmopolitan appearance of the city but it opened the way for the town-planning miracle of the Hebrard Plan.
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