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Newspaper clipping depicting a bystander helping a monk carry a trunk out of a burning building

Two newspaper clippings which depict firemen attempting to put out the fire in the chapel

Newspaper clipping depicting the moment the church steeple collapsed

Newspaper clipping that depicts the façade of the burning Guest House building

Newspaper clipping depicting an aerial view of the monastery before the fire

Two newspaper clippings depicting monks rescuing items from the burning buildings

Two newspaper clippings. The first depicts a monk watching the flames. The second shows two firefighters attempting to put out the flaming steeple.

Three clippings from the March 22, 1950 edition of the Pawtucket Times: "$2.5-Million Loss in Abbey Fire" and an image of the charred remains of the Guest House building

Newspaper clipping depicting firefighters attempting to put out the flaming guest house building. The caption states: "Flying sparks endanger firemen battling the abbey fire. Eleven departments in Rhode Island and Massachusetts sent men and apparatus…

Two clippings from the March 22, 1950 edition of the Pawtucket Times: one photograph of the church and guest house, and one clipping of the article headline: "Scenes as 50 years of toil on Cistercian Abbey is destroyed by fire".