At the fire no. 2 – Vintage Print
(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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At the fire no. 2
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The title's "no. 2" suggests this is one of a numbered set of scenes showing firefighters at work, and the copyright entry dates it to February 20, 1895. Such views of crews racing to blazes were popular in illustrated periodicals and printed sheets of the period. The library's catalog card links the work to the name Thomas & Wylie, but that attribution has not been verified. In the 1890s, steam fire engines and horse-drawn apparatus were changing urban firefighting, so images like this one capture a time when crews still depended heavily on horses and hand-worked equipment at the scene.
| Created / published | 1895 Feb. 20. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | 10487 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Thomas & Wylie. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,116 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110338 |
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