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[Firemen on two fire engines in front of Engine Co. #1, 1643 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.] – Historic Photograph Print

[Firemen on two fire engines in front of Engine Co. #1, 1643 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.], Washington — historic photograph
[Firemen on two fire engines in front of Engine Co. #1, 1643 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.], Washington. Historic photograph from the Washington DC 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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Step back in time with [Firemen on two fire engines in front of Engine Co. #1, 1643 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Firemen on two fire engines in front of Engine Co. #1, 1643 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.]

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Two fire engines and their crews are posed in front of Engine Company No. 1 at 1643 K Street NW, a firehouse in the heart of downtown Washington. The record places the scene in the 1940s, a decade when the District's fire companies ran motorized pumpers, and the photograph shows the men and equipment that answered calls in the city's commercial core. Pictures of working firehouses like this one are useful for seeing how apparatus, uniforms, and station design looked during the wartime and postwar years.

Created / publishedWashington
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesD.C.
SubjectsFire fighters--Washington (D.C.)--1940-1950. Fire engines & equipment--Washington (D.C.)--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,157 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-167448

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