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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... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Poster design of Clarke-McNary Forest Protection Program depicting Smokey Bear pouring water on a campfire. |
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| Description: | Poster design from the Forest Protection Program depicting squirrels with the text: "Another Enemy To Conquer-Forest Fires-9 Out Of 10 Can BE Prevented". |
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| Description: | Poster design from the Forest Protection Program depicting squirrels and text: "Another Enemy To Conquer-Forest Fires-Nine Out Of Ten Can Be Prevented". |
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| Description: | View of a winding path with metal handrails leading up the side of a mountain to a fire lookout tower. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | A firetruck with its hose hanging into the water is surrounded by debris and other wreckage left from a tornado. |
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| Description: | A view of the Saint James, Long Island fire station. In the middle bay, the fire engine protrudes out into the driveway. Another engine sits inside the s... |
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| Description: | A view of the Mastic, Long Island firemen. A fire engine is parked on the street, to the left of the station. Five firemen are posing in it, two in the fro... |
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| Description: | A view of the building and engine. The building, made of brick, contains a garage door opening in an arch shape, accented by the brickwork around the arch... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A Zouave fireman spraying a person in bed clothes in the face with a fire hose. Smoke is billowing in the background. Caption below reads, "A Fireman Zouav... |
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| Description: | Uniformed men of Hose Company #2 fire station line up with a wagon and fire extinguishing equipment in front of the brick building. |
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| Description: | Several uniformed fire fighters stand outside the Dougan Hills Fire Department in a driveway near two fire engines. The two-story fire station is covered ... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wm. Ewig Company, an insurance company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with full-color depictions of a scene with three traffic accidents involv... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Globe Automatic Sprinkler Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a globe within the "O" of the company name, a sprinkler releasing water o... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers look on as a group of Russian firefighters are attempting to extinguish a fire in a building possibly used by the Allied forces in Arch... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over fence of a group of soldiers looking on as a group of Russian firefighters are attempting to extinguish a fire in a building possibly us... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of firemen fighting a high school fire. A small crowd of people are watching from the street. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | This map of Three Lakes shows forest fire lookout towers, picnic grounds, an airport, roads, and railroad. The map features text boxes on the Village of Th... |
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