Fire engine horses – Antique Wall Art
(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.)
Description
This historic photograph of Fire engine horses 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.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Fire engine horses
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Horse teams once pulled fire engines and hose wagons through American city streets, and the Bain News Service recorded that working life on glass negatives. The record gives only the title "Fire engine horses," taken from unverified caption data, so the station, city, and date are unknown. Bain's agency was based in New York and worked in the early twentieth century, when motorized apparatus was steadily replacing horses. Pictures like this one preserve a brief moment when the animals were still central to fighting fires.
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 919 × 610 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11148 |
More from the Fire Engines collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
![[Fireman with 2 horses and fire engine in front of firehouse, 11th and Lucas, St. Louis, Mo.]](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/79/79facfd59aff-400.webp)
