Set of 4 original real photo postcards documenting a major industrial disaster in Antwerp (Anvers), Belgium.These postcards depict the catastrophic fire of the petroleum/oil storage tanks in the port of Antwerp on 26 August 1904.All four cards show different views of the same event: burning oil tanks, massive smoke clouds, firefighters, workers and onlookers at the disaster site.All postcards are:– original period items (circa 1904)– clean / unused (no writing on reverse)– from the same historical event– strong documentary and historical valueThis is a coherent and rare disaster series, highly attractive for collectors of:industrial history, disasters, early photography, Belgian history and documentary postcards.Condition: good to very good (light age wear possible, see scans).
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