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Combination chemical fire engine, Hoquiam, Washington, Fire Department – Historic Print

Combination chemical fire engine, Hoquiam, Washington, Fire Department, c1913. — historic photograph
Combination chemical fire engine, Hoquiam, Washington, Fire Department, c1913.. 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: Combination chemical fire engine, Hoquiam, Washington, Fire Department, 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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Combination chemical fire engine, Hoquiam, Washington, Fire Department

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This view shows a combination chemical engine with the fire department at Hoquiam, a lumber town on Grays Harbor in western Washington. Around 1913, many American fire companies were replacing horse-drawn equipment with motorized apparatus, and combination units like this one carried a chemical tank for small blazes along with hose for larger fires. The photograph is credited to H.G. Nelson, and its caption card lists it under firehouses in Washington, so it records both the equipment and the station that housed it. The record gives few other details about the scene, but it offers a useful look at municipal firefighting in a timber town of that period.

Created / publishedc1913.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto by H.G. Nelson; no copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog I.; Firehouses--Wash.; Firefighting...; Fire Engines; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,126 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139488

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