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Testing fire engines – Antique Wall Art

Testing fire engines, n/a — historic photograph
Testing fire engines, n/a. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Testing fire engines. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Testing fire engines is the subject of this glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of work produced by the Bain News Service, a Manhattan photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified notes written by the agency, so the exact occasion is uncertain. Still, the subject fits a common practice of the period: fire departments routinely put new apparatus through trials to check pumping power, hose capacity, and handling on the street. Photographs like this one document the machines themselves and the working methods behind early urban fire protection.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,754 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-15377

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