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The album is red canvas with an image, titled "The Fireman" and signed Harry Murphy, of a firefighter carrying a fainting woman out of flames on the cover. Title printed on cover: "THE FIREMAN". Album contains photographs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings related to the San Francisco Fire Department. Many photographs are of San Francisco firefighters and the exteriors of various San Francisco fire houses. The album also includes photographs of various San Francisco buildings, both before and after the 1906 earthquake and fire, and prints and newspaper clippings about New York City's fire houses. Inside Front Cover- pamphlet "Our Flag" . 1- San Francisco landscape; "The Men Who Risked Their Lives for San Francisco and Served Without Compensation". 2- "Muggins Club"; man seated in library. 3- "San Francisco As It Is, 1854."; fire engine; news clipping "The Oldest Fire Apparatus in the United States.". 4- news clipping "Token of Gratitude"; news clipping "Our Engine on the Hill"; portrait of Walter Bohen. 5- firemen and fire engine; news clipping "Monumental No. 6". 6- portrait drawing of Chief David Scannell. 7- "#381- Monumental Engine House 1856, On The Plaza.". 8- "Jas Aitken"; "Broderick Engine House"; fire engine. 9- "Columbian Engine Co. No. 11". 10- "Independent Rincon Hose Co.y. No. 6.". 11- 23 firemen. 12- a fire engine; print of "Burning of the Crystal Palace, October 5th, 1858."; "Mr. Charles P. Ling". 13- news clipping "New York's Fires and Firemen Seventy Years Ago"; print "A Fire at Marion and Elm Streets in 1861"; print "How the Volunteers Worked in 1840"; print "Burning of Barnum's Museum, July 13, 1865."; news clipping about firemen's sacrifice; print of "The Merchants' Exchange, Destroyed by Fire in December, 1835.". 14- "Mr. Arnold V.V.F.A. of N.Y."; "Mr. William Campbell V.V.F.A. of N.Y."; firemen of the Volunteer Firemen's Association of the City of New York; photograph of fire engine; news clipping "The Volunteer Firemen's Association of the City of New York". 15- 9 firemen "Champions 1878 '76 '77" some holding a bat or ball; 2 prints of a US flag. 16- print "View of Montgomery Street, Between Sacramento and Clay, (East Side.)". 17- "Crescent Engine Company No 10 of the Volunteer Fire Department of San Francisco 1863"; "Albert Crouter V.V.F.A of New York City"; "James Aitken. 2nd President of the V.V.F.A. of San Francisco". 18- man in uniform and boy standing in front of a 'Chelsea Truck'. 19- print "Engine"; "Richard Robinson and James Dryer. of Monumental Engine Company 1864-1866"; fire wagon print. 20- "[?] B. Br[?]ndt A Member of Knickerbocker Engine Co. No. 5. 1861-1866"; print "James Aitken Veteran Volunteer Fireman". 21- news clipping "An Historical Sketch". 22- "An Historical Sketch" newspaper clipping. 23- "An Historical Sketch" newspaper clipping. 24- "An Historical Sketch" newspaper clipping. 25- "Old Lincoln School"; "After the fire 1906." 26- "David T. Scannell Late Chief Engineer, S. F. F. D. Franklin E. Whitney First Chief Engineer S. F. Fire Department"; "P. H. Shaughnessy Junior past Chief Engineer, San Francisco Fire Department Dennis T. Sullivan Late Chief Engineer, San Francisco Fire Department". 27- "Thomas R. Murphy Chief Engineer S. F. Fire Department Engine Co. No. 12 and Truck No. 13. Drumm and Commercial Street". 28- "S. R. Russell First Assistant Chief J. J. Conlon Second Assistant Chief"; "John J. Murphy One of the Old Boys"; "John F. O. Comstock Superintendent Underwriters' Fire Patrol Charles Town Fire Marshal". 29- print with 16 portraits of firemen, image of a firecrew behind a fire engine, image of fire boat, and drawing of a fireman carrying a young woman; 6 men in front of a fire engine. 30- "San Francisco Fire Commissioner's Office at Old City Hall"; 15 firemen with names below. 31- "Engine No. 27, S. F. F. D., 621 Hermann Street"; "Samuel Baker"; 2 prints of a US flag; "Engine Company No. 21 Oak and Broderick". 32- "David Scannell Chief Old Department"; "James Riley 1st Ass Engineer to Old Department"; "Dinnis Sullivan Chief Who was killed at the time of Earthquake. 1906". 33- "Cliff House on Fire"; "As it looked before the Fire"; postcard "Burning of Grand Opera House, Harrisburg, Pa.". 34- "1st Assistant Engineer San Francisco Fire Department, now dead"; "Drill". 35- "James Radford. Battalion Chief San Francisco Fire Department"; "Clay Street Lodging House Fire Aug 25 1911" 36- firemen in front of building; firemen and fire engine in front of building. 37- 3 firemen and fire engine with US flags; "Engine No. 23. Washington St, bet Divisadero & Baker. 38- fire engine with 2 firemen and children; fireman with fire engine. 39- fire engine; "Drill". 40- "Fire Boat 'David Scannel' S. F. F. D."; "Fire Boat 'Dennis T. Sullivan,' S. F. F. D.". 41- 5 firemen and horse-drawn fire engine; "Clay St. Lodging House Fire". 42- "Clay St. Lodging House Fire."; "Fire house at the Fair Grounds 1915." 43- "San Francisco Fire Department after a parade"; "James Aitken With an Old time Jumper". 44- "Mr. M. G(an?)ts, Mayor Alvard, Chief P. Crowley, Mr. Tobin. Police Commissioners San Francisco Police Depart."; clipping "of the Police Department of San Francisco California"; "Lost Child". 45- "City Marshals and Chiefs of Police San Francisco 1849 - 1910."; "Capt Don (?). Capt Stone. Capt Duglas. Capt Short. Capt Healey. Capt Cullen". 46- "Leo W. Wiltman 1901-1905"; "John F. Seymour 1911". 47- "Wm. J. Biggy 1907-1908"; "John Martin 1910". 48- "Jesse B. Cook"; men in suits indoors possibly in a courtroom. 49- "James Kelly"; "Duncan Matheson"; print of butterfly with "Chinamel" on body. 50- "Henry Gleeson"; "Atken"; "Marcellus O. Anderson". 51- "Hendry J. O'Day"; "Bernard J. Judge"; print of butterfly with "Chinamel" on body. 52- portrait of a man with a Property Clerk hat; portrait of a man with a Lieutenant hat; print of butterfly with "Chinamel" on body. 53- "Central Station 1906 Police"; "Sgt. Abraham J. Houghtaling."; man seated in chair; "Moran". 54- "James Aitken John Allen."; "Sam Jompson and the Park Officers." Inside Back Cover- blank page.
Volunteer fire departments San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 San Francisco (Calif.). Fire Department Firemen's Association of the City of New York
Time Period
184X/1920~
Place
San Francisco (Calif.)
Provenance
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