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Man on Tall Ladder

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Description: Fire fighting scene in which a man is at the top of a very tall ladder mounted on a hook and ladder fire truck. A group of men observe. A haze of smoke fil...
Photograph

International Model VCO-202 Fire and Rescue Truck Battling Fire

Date: 1963
Description: Fire fighters use an International Model VCO-202 fire and rescue truck with an eighty-five foot mounted ladder to fight a fire, possibly as part of a train...
Photograph

Fire Fighters Practice with Scout 80 1965 Fire Truck

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Description: Color photograph of a fire crew battling small house fire during a training exercise. The men are using an International Scout 80 1965 fire truck.
Photograph

Fire Fighters Douse Flames Downtown

Date: 04 15 1950
Description: Fire fighters from neighboring communities help put out at a nighttime fire in the downtown business district.
Photograph

Fire Fighters Pose with International Model H 1920 Fire Truck

Date: 1920
Description: Fire fighters posing with their International Model H 1920 fire truck.
Photograph

Fire Company Wagon

Date: 1868
Description: The first ladder wagon of Capitol Hook and Ladder Company #1 posed at the corner of Pinckney and Main streets to show off the length of the wagon and the 4...
Photograph

Fire Department at Northern Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1893
Description: Institutional fire fighting department at the Northern Hospital for the Insane, executing drills on the exterior of the building. Fire fighting equipment i...
Photograph

Northern Hospital for the Insane's Fire Fighting Department

Date: 1893
Description: Group portrait of the Northern Hospital for the Insane's institutional fire fighting department posed outside the building. Horse-drawn transport cart and ...
Book or Pamphlet

International Fire Truck Brochure

Date: 1959
Description: Front cover color illustration of an advertising brochure for International B-line, R-line, V-line and CO-line fire truck chassis.
Book or Pamphlet

International Fire Trucks

Date: 1934
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for the 1934 line of International fire trucks, featuring an illustration of fire fighters climbing up a ladder, wit...
Photograph

Burning Building and Volunteer Fire Fighters

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Description: Volunteer fire fighters prepare to put out a fire on a roof. The fire company's hose cart is the vehicle with two large wheels which was attached to any av...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Fire Engine

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Description: Three men in a horse-drawn fire engine racing down a downtown street.
Photograph

Kilbourn Fire Department

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Description: Members of the Kilbourn Fire Department posing in uniform with a fire truck in front of the fire station on Oak Street.
Photograph

International Model 61 1923 Fire Truck

Date: 1923
Description: Firefighters handle a fire hose connected to an International Model 61 1923 fire truck operated by the "Canadian Fire Department."
Photograph

International Model SF 1926 Fire Truck

Date: 01 20 1927
Description: A man is sitting behind the wheel of an International Model SF 1926 fire truck used operated by the Center Moriches Fire Department. The text on the truck ...
Print

Newhall House Fire

Date: 01 09 1883
Description: A large crowd is on the street surrounding the burning building. Fire fighters are struggling with horses pulling the fire engine, and on the left a group...
Photograph

Fire Fighters with Scout 80

Date: 1961
Description: Fire fighters battle a controlled fire during training with an International Harvester Scout 80 4x4 mounted with a fire apparatus.
Photograph

Monroe Fire

Date: 08 28 1948
Description: Spectators and fireman at the Fitzgibbons building fire downtown.
Photograph

Flour Mill Fire

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Description: Fire at the elevator of the Atlas Flour Mill. Two men are working a water hose tower in the center, and fire fighters are aiming jets of water at the buil...
Photograph

International Model SF-34 1927 Fire Truck

Date: 04 12 1926
Description: Two men sitting in an International Model SF-34 1927 fire truck marked "Ogdensburg, N.Y." They are parked in front of what appears to be a fire station.

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