Goodbye to fire horses, Engine No. 39 N.Y. – Antique Print
(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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Step back in time with Goodbye to fire horses, Engine No. 39 N.Y., a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Goodbye to fire horses, Engine No. 39 N.Y.
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Engine No. 39 in New York, as the title "Goodbye to Fire Horses" suggests, records a farewell to the animals that once pulled the company's apparatus through city streets. Across American cities in the early twentieth century, motor-driven fire engines were replacing teams of horses that had hauled hose wagons and steam pumpers for decades, and the animals were often retired or sold once a company switched over. The photograph comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection of the Bain News Service, which sold pictures of current events to newspapers. The title is taken from unverified caption data, so the exact date and occasion are worth checking against the Library of Congress record.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 940 × 702 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11388 |
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