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Fire-engines: Goodwill Hummingbird No. 5, York, Pa., fire department – Vintage Print

Fire-engines: Goodwill Hummingbird No. 5, York, Pa., fire department, c1911 June 26. — historic photograph
Fire-engines: Goodwill Hummingbird No. 5, York, Pa., fire department, c1911 June 26.. 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: Fire-engines: Goodwill Hummingbird No. 5, York, Pa., 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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Fire-engines: Goodwill Hummingbird No. 5, York, Pa., fire department

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The Goodwill Hummingbird No. 5 was one of the steam fire engines in service with the fire department in York, Pennsylvania, when this view was made around 1911. Steam pumpers of this kind were hauled by horses to a blaze and fired up on arrival, and by the 1910s many towns were beginning to replace them with motorized apparatus. The photograph was copyrighted by the firm Simon & Murmane, and its caption card is unverified, so the date and details are best treated as approximate.

Created / publishedc1911 June 26.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsJ156952 U.S. Copyright Office Photo copyrighted by Simon & Murmane. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pa.--York; Photog. Index; Steam-engines; Firefighting...; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,214 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-132722

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