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The last of the Horses Engine Co. 205, New York Fire Department – Historic Print

The last of the Horses Engine Co. 205, New York Fire Department, c1922 Dec. 27. — historic photograph
The last of the Horses Engine Co. 205, New York Fire Department, c1922 Dec. 27.. Historic photograph from the Horses 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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The last of the Horses Engine Co. 205, New York Fire Department comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The title, "The last of the Horses," points to Engine Company 205 of the New York Fire Department at a moment when its horse-drawn team was nearing retirement. By the early 1920s the department was replacing horse-drawn apparatus with motorized engines and trucks, ending a tradition of animal-powered firefighting that dated to the nineteenth century. The photograph's date, around December 1922, places it near the end of that changeover, when stables and their teams were being emptied out. The image is worth a close look for the way it records a working scene just before horses disappeared from the city's firehouses.

Created / publishedc1922 Dec. 27.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsJ258968 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo copyrighted by Albert Dreyfous. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions.. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; NY--New York City--Misc.--1922; Firefighting...; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,067 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-138583

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