[New motor fire engine, New York City, and Chief Kenlon] – Vintage Print
![[New motor fire engine, New York City, and Chief Kenlon], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3e/3e9a0f57ebd2-L.webp)
(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 historic photograph of [New motor fire engine, New York City, and Chief Kenlon] brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[New motor fire engine, New York City, and Chief Kenlon]
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A new motor-driven fire engine, photographed in New York City with a fire chief named Kenlon, is the focus of this print from the George Grantham Bain Collection. The caption card records no date, though one of its subject tags reads "Autos--1912," which suggests the picture dates from that year. Around then, American fire departments, New York's among them, were replacing horse-drawn pumpers and hose wagons with gasoline-powered apparatus, which reached blazes faster and did not need horses stabled and fed. Bain News Service, a photo agency, distributed pictures like this one to newspapers, so the image shows how the change was presented to the public.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: BI; Geogr.; Autos--1912; Fire; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,070 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140678 |
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