Motor fire engine – Vintage Wall Art
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Motor fire engine in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Motor fire engine
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Little beyond the title survives for this negative, which the Bain News Service recorded as a motor fire engine, so the picture is best read against its period. It belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of press photographs made by a New York news agency that operated from the late 1890s into the 1920s. In the 1910s, American cities began replacing horse-drawn pumpers with motorized apparatus, which could reach a blaze faster and did not need a stable of horses. Pictures like this one record that shift in equipment, when the new machines were still a novelty in many towns.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,741 × 4,173 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-15370 |
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