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Horse-drawn fire engine of Engine Company No. 12 outside firehouse, 1626 North Capitol Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. – Vintage Photo Print

Horse-drawn fire engine of Engine Company No. 12 outside firehouse, 1626 North Capitol Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., [between 1880 and 1910, 197- printing] — historic photograph
Horse-drawn fire engine of Engine Company No. 12 outside firehouse, 1626 North Capitol Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., [between 1880 and 1910, 197- printing]. Historic photograph from the Fire Engines 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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Horse-drawn fire engine of Engine Company No. 12 outside firehouse, 1626 North Capitol Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Horse-drawn fire engine of Engine Company No. 12 outside firehouse, 1626 North Capitol Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

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Engine Company No. 12 stood at 1626 North Capitol Street in Washington, D.C., and this print shows its horse-drawn apparatus in front of the firehouse. Fire companies of this era depended on teams of horses trained to race to alarms, and their harnesses were built to be hitched in seconds. The picture was taken sometime between 1880 and 1910, when horses still pulled fire engines in American cities before motorized apparatus replaced them. This print was made in the 1970s from an earlier image and belongs to the James M. Goode Collection.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1910, 197- printing]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1970-1980.
NotesJames M. Goode Collection. No. G-4859.
SubjectsFire engines & equipment--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,298 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-178424

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