New Jersey. Hopewell Fire department – Historic Reproduction
(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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This rare historic photograph captures New Jersey. Hopewell Fire department in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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New Jersey. Hopewell Fire department
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A photographic print of the Hopewell fire department, a community in Mercer County, New Jersey, is catalogued here without a date, so its exact age is uncertain. Its caption card carries the subject tag "Firefighting," which points to a picture of firefighters at work or of their equipment. Small towns in New Jersey relied heavily on volunteer fire companies well into the twentieth century, and photographs of these crews often show the apparatus, uniforms, and station buildings that reveal how local firefighting was organized. Viewers interested in the period may find the equipment and clothing the most telling details.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NJ--H-; Firefighting...; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 977 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-134027 |
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