Mullan [Idaho] Fire Dept., Decoration Day, 1912 – Antique Print
![Mullan [Idaho] Fire Dept., Decoration Day, 1912, c1912 July 20. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8f/8f37bc72262d-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.)
Description
A window into the past: Mullan [Idaho] Fire Dept., Decoration Day, 1912, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Mullan [Idaho] Fire Dept., Decoration Day, 1912
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Mullan, a mining town in northern Idaho's Silver Valley, is the place this picture records, with its fire department turned out for Decoration Day in 1912. Decoration Day, the forerunner of Memorial Day, was when many American communities honored their war dead, and local fire companies often took part in the parades, showing off their apparatus alongside marching citizens. The photograph is credited as copyrighted by H.E. English, but its date and caption details come from an old card and have not been independently verified. The catalog lists fire engines as the subject, which makes it a useful glimpse of small-town firefighting equipment of the period.
| Created / published | c1912 July 20. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo copyrighted by H.E. English. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Fire engines. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,241 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125312 |
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