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[Fireman with 2 horses and fire engine in front of firehouse, 11th and Lucas, St. Louis, Mo.] – Antique Wall Art

[Fireman with 2 horses and fire engine in front of firehouse, 11th and Lucas, St. Louis, Mo.], [between ca. 1890 and 1933] — historic photograph
[Fireman with 2 horses and fire engine in front of firehouse, 11th and Lucas, St. Louis, 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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A lone fireman stands with a pair of horses hitched to a fire engine at the corner of 11th and Lucas in St. Louis, Missouri, a firehouse setting that is specific to this view. Fire companies of this era relied on horses to pull heavy apparatus through city streets, and stables were often built into the firehouse so animals could be harnessed quickly when an alarm sounded. The picture dates to somewhere between about 1890 and 1933, a span that covers the shift from horse-drawn to motorized fire equipment in American cities. Worth noticing is the partnership between the harnessed pair and the engine they were built to pull, a reminder of how central horses were to urban firefighting before motor trucks took over.

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 scan1,536 × 1,218 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142024

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