Firemenatwork1733Fromanold Fire – Vintage Print
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Firemenatwork1733Fromanold Fire comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Firemenatwork1733Fromanold Fire
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The title dates this scene to 1733 and describes it as drawn from an older fire, so it shows firefighting as it looked in the early eighteenth century rather than a single documented blaze. At that time, fire crews worked with hand-operated pumps and buckets, and an engine's output depended entirely on the muscle of the men working its handles. Images like this one were often reproduced and reused, so it is worth looking closely at the equipment, the crowd and the positioning of the men, which together give a sense of how urban fire response was organized before motorized apparatus.
| Original scan | 3,233 × 2,219 px · prints to 11 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif01574_Firemenatwork1733FromanoldFire |
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