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[Two firemen with fire engine] – Historic Print

[Two firemen with fire engine], [between 1909 and 1932] — historic photograph
[Two firemen with fire engine], [between 1909 and 1932]. 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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The record gives little beyond its subject: two firemen posed beside a fire engine, a scene that stands out from the many engine portraits on the board because it puts the crew, not just the apparatus, at the center. The National Photo Company, which made the picture, was a Washington, D.C., firm that photographed the city and its surroundings in the early twentieth century, and its negatives were later deposited with the Library of Congress. Pictures like this one, with a pair of men standing by their machine, document the hand-drawn and early motorized fire apparatus that replaced horse teams in American cities during those decades. Its date range, between 1909 and 1932, places it in that transition.

Created / published[between 1909 and 1932]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1940.
NotesNational Photo Company Collection. No. 1060.
SubjectsFire engines & equipment--1900-1940. Fire fighters--1900-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,285 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-183786

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