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Union Horse & Chemical No. 3 - York, Pa., fire department – Historic Reproduction

Union Horse & Chemical No. 3 - York, Pa., fire department, c1911 June 26. — historic photograph
Union Horse & Chemical No. 3 - York, Pa., fire department, c1911 June 26.. Historic photograph from the Horses collection.

(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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Union Horse & Chemical No. 3 was a fire company in York, Pennsylvania, and this view from around 1911 shows its equipment at a time when horses still pulled most American fire apparatus. Combination "horse and chemical" companies carried soda-acid extinguishers alongside hose and ladders, and they relied on teams that had to be fed, shod and ready to run at any hour. The photograph was copyrighted by Simon & Murnane, a York studio, and it dates to just before motorized trucks began replacing horse-drawn engines in the 1910s.

Created / publishedc1911 June 26.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsJ156972 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo copyrighted by Simon & Murnane, York, Pa. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pennsylvania--York; Photog. Index; Firefighting...; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,221 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134031

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