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Automobile fire engine – Antique Wall Art

Automobile fire engine, c1911. — historic photograph
Automobile fire engine, c1911.. 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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Automobile fire engine

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A motorized fire engine, the kind that began replacing horse-drawn apparatus in American fire departments in the 1900s and 1910s, is the focus of this c1911 photographic print. Motor fire engines were faster to reach a blaze and could carry hose, ladders and pumping equipment without the teams of horses that had long been required, and their arrival marked a major shift in urban fire protection. Photographs like this one, held in the Library of Congress, document that transition as cities modernized their equipment.

Created / publishedc1911.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesJ156570 U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsFire engines & equipment--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,298 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-178193

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