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[5 firemen and 2 horses at dorway of firehouse, Webster Groves, Mo.] – Vintage Print

[5 firemen and 2 horses at dorway of firehouse, Webster Groves, Mo.], [between ca. 1890 and 1933] — historic photograph
[5 firemen and 2 horses at dorway of firehouse, Webster Groves, Mo.], [between ca. 1890 and 1933]. 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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Five firemen stand with two horses in the doorway of a firehouse in Webster Groves, a suburb west of St. Louis, Missouri. Pictures like this one capture the period when horse-drawn equipment still answered alarms, before motor apparatus took over most American fire companies in the 1910s and 1920s. The horses at the threshold show how central animals still were to fire work of the era. The date is given only as a range from about 1890 to 1933, and the caption card behind the record has not been fully verified, so the exact moment remains uncertain.

Created / published[between ca. 1890 and 1933]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsDick Lemen Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mo.--St. Louis--Firehouses; Mo.--W- G-; Firehouses--(2); Firemen--ca. 1890-1933; Fire fighting; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,213 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142023

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