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Title
Fire fighters and steam-powered fire engines in action on Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1914
Date Created and/or Issued
1914
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of fire fighters and steam-powered fire engines in action on Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1914. A man in a suit stands to the left of center in the foreground of the frame, watching as a group of firefighters to the left attend their steam-powered fire engine which stands in front of a several-story building. Farther back, another group of firemen have their fire hoses trained on a target.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2225
USC-0-1-1-2286 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-8213
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2225
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-8213.jpg
Subject
Fire fighters
Fire-departments
Fires
Los Angeles--Fire department #1
Los Angeles Fire Department
Roadways
Time Period
1914
Place
Broadway and 2nd Street
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-17-10 [Microfiche number]
8213 [Accession number]
CHS-8213 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 13 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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