Arundel Engine Co. 1850 [Occupational portrait of fire fighters] – Vintage Photo Print
![Arundel Engine Co. 1850 [Occupational portrait of fire fighters], 1850 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/63/635149a5cdcb-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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Arundel Engine Co. 1850 [Occupational portrait of fire fighters] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Arundel Engine Co. 1850 [Occupational portrait of fire fighters]
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Here the men of the Arundel Engine Company of Kennebunkport, Maine, posed for a daguerreotype in 1850, and a caption printed beneath the image names them from left to right, including a captain, a painter, and several others. The town bought a hand-operated tub and hose that same year. Volunteer companies like this one relied on muscle to pump water onto fires, since most small towns then had no piped water supply, and the men shown were likely neighbors and local tradesmen. The plate has been cut down from its original half-plate size, so some of the group's edges were trimmed away.
| Created / published | 1850 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, cut down. |
| Genre | Group portraits 1850.Portrait photographs 1850.Daguerreotypes 1850. |
| Notes | Photographer unidentified. Caption below image: Left to right. 1st, unknown, 2nd. Palmer Jefferds, 3rd, unknown, 4th. Capt. Thomas Nowell, 5th. Leach, painter, 6th. William F. Meedy, 7th. Capt. Stone. 8th. Horace Davis 9th. Samuel Pope, 10th, unknown, 11th, unknown, 12th. unknown, 13th. Simon Goodwin, 14th. Charles E. Miller. In frame with decorative paper mat. In 1850 Kennebunkport purchased a hand-operated tub & hose. Kennebunkport scrapbook / Joyce Butler. Kennebunk Landing, Me. : Rosemary House Press, 1989. p. 21. Purchase/exchange; Dr. Gary Vroegindewey; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:R380). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Fire fighters--Maine--Kennebunkport--1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,277 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 569_Arundel_Engine_Co_1850_1850 |
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