Women Fire Dept., Clarendon, Va. – Historic Reproduction
![Women Fire Dept., Clarendon, Va., [between 1909 and 1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/00/000e21909439-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Women Fire Dept., Clarendon, Va., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Women Fire Dept., Clarendon, Va.
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Photographs of women posed beside fire apparatus from this period are uncommon, which makes this glass negative from Clarendon, Virginia, stand out on the board. The National Photo Company, which documented Washington and the surrounding region, made the picture sometime between 1909 and 1920, when most fire companies were staffed entirely by men and women were more often connected to them in auxiliary or social roles. The title comes from data the company wrote on the negative and has not been independently verified, so the group's exact purpose remains uncertain. The plate also shows the streaks and blemishes that often appear as glass negatives age.
| Created / published | [between 1909 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch five. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,965 × 4,351 px · prints to 20 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-249724 |
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