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Juneau Fire Department – Historic Print

Juneau Fire Department, c1896. — historic photograph
Juneau Fire Department, c1896.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Juneau Fire Department

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Juneau, a gold-rush town on Alaska's panhandle, is the place named in this c1896 photographic print, which was copyrighted by the firm Winter and Pond. The record comes from an old caption card and is unverified, so details about the men, their equipment, and the exact location should be read with caution. Wooden towns of that era often depended on volunteer companies with hand-pulled or horse-drawn apparatus, and a fire department picture like this one records a civic institution still taking shape as the population grew.

Created / publishedc1896.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto copyrighted by Winter and Pond. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Fires...; Alaska--J-; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,037 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139731

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