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[Horse-drawn fire truck in front of Webster Groves Fire Co. No. 2; small boy in drivers seat, St. Louis, Missouri] – Historic Print

[Horse-drawn fire truck in front of Webster Groves Fire Co. No. 2; small boy in drivers seat, St. Louis, Missouri] — historic photograph
[Horse-drawn fire truck in front of Webster Groves Fire Co. No. 2; small boy in drivers seat, St. Louis, Missouri]. 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 small boy sits in the driver's seat of a horse-drawn fire wagon parked outside Webster Groves Fire Company No. 2, near St. Louis, Missouri. The record gives no firm date, but the notation "189-?" places it sometime in the 1890s, when horses still pulled pumpers and hose carts to blazes in towns across the country. Well-trained teams were known to leave their stalls at the sound of an alarm, and firehouses often became neighborhood gathering spots. The scene captures how closely a small community was tied to the horses and men who served it.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[189-?]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,237 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123612

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