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[Engine Company No. 12, firehouse, 1626 North Capitol Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.] – Historic Photograph Print

[Engine Company No. 12, firehouse, 1626 North Capitol Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.], [ca. 1905, 197-? printing] — historic photograph
[Engine Company No. 12, firehouse, 1626 North Capitol Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.], [ca. 1905, 197-? printing]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC 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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[Engine Company No. 12, firehouse, 1626 North Capitol Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.]

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Engine Company No. 12 occupied a firehouse at 1626 North Capitol Street in northwest Washington, and this view records the building as it stood around 1905. Around that time the city's engine companies relied on horse-drawn apparatus, and the stables and apparatus bays of neighborhood firehouses were often built to house both horses and equipment. The picture survives as a 1970s printing from a ca. 1905 original by a photographer named Ross, part of the James M. Goode Collection, so its details of street, architecture and daily fire-service life offer a glimpse of Washington's early twentieth-century streetscape.

Created / published[ca. 1905, 197-? printing]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1970-1980.
NotesJames M. Goode Collection. No. G-3940x. Photograph by Ross.
SubjectsFire stations--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,296 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-178422

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