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Title: First fire engine, closeup
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Closeup view of the first fire engine, the pride of the fire department in days of 1908. Note the wreath around the lone headlight.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00028746
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 13 (1757) 4x5; Santa Monica-Fire Department.
CARL0000031939
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/95054
Subject: Fire departments--California--Santa Monica
Fire engines--California--Santa Monica

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