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Fire Department. City of Elizabeth, N.J. – Vintage Print

Fire Department. City of Elizabeth, N.J., [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print
Fire Department. City of Elizabeth, N.J., [no date recorded on shelflist card]. Historic print 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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This rare historic print captures Fire Department. City of Elizabeth, N.J. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Fire Department. City of Elizabeth, N.J.

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Elizabeth, New Jersey, a port city on Newark Bay in Union County, is the place named in this print's title, which points to a municipal fire department and its equipment. The catalog card gives no date, and the only name attached to it, Hart, Chas., is unverified, so the maker and the exact occasion remain unknown. Early in the twentieth century, many American cities were moving from horse-drawn steam pumpers and hose wagons to motorized apparatus, so an image of a city's fire department from this period often shows that transition. Comparing the engines, uniforms, and station details with dated records would help place it.

Created / published[no date recorded on shelflist card]
Medium1 print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Hart, Chas.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,158 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-113895

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