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[Firemen posed on fire engine, New York City] – Historic Print

[Firemen posed on fire engine, New York City], [between ca. 1908 and 1916] — historic photograph
[Firemen posed on fire engine, New York City], [between ca. 1908 and 1916]. 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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A window into the past: [Firemen posed on fire engine, New York City], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Firemen posed on fire engine, New York City]

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Few things in the Bain collection capture the working life of a city fire company as directly as this group portrait of firemen standing on their apparatus. The record places the picture in New York City sometime between about 1908 and 1916, a period when horse-drawn engines were giving way to motorized pumpers. George Grantham Bain, a news photographer, sold images like this to newspapers, which is why many of his pictures show uniformed crews posed for the camera. The men's dress and the engine itself are worth a close look, since they reflect a transitional era in firefighting.

Created / published[between ca. 1908 and 1916]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1920.
NotesGeorge Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsFire engines & equipment--New York (State)--New York--1900-1920. Fire fighters--New York (State)--New York--1900-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,289 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-195688

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