Chief Kenlon - New Motor Fire Engine – Historic Print
(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 Chief Kenlon - New Motor Fire Engine 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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Chief Kenlon - New Motor Fire Engine
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A fire chief stands beside a newly delivered motor fire engine, a subject the Bain News Service photographed as American cities replaced horse-drawn apparatus with gasoline-powered trucks in the early 1900s. The title credits the subject as Chief Kenlon, but that information comes from unverified caption data, so the city and date remain uncertain. Glass negatives like this one were the standard working format for newspaper and wire photographers of the period, and the picture records the moment motor power was becoming the norm for fire departments.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,785 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11389 |
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