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Title: [Wreck of Chemical Engine #2] (2 views)
Contributor: McCurry Foto Co
Sacramento History Online: 2001-2002
Date Created and/or Issued: 1914
Publication Information: [Sacramento, Calif.] : McCurry Foto
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: View 1 (2002-0216) -- view 2 (2016-3093).
View of fire truck wrecked on its side in the street surrounded by men and boys.
Negative, no. 23,849 (4 x 5 in.)
Chemical Engine No. 2 was stationed at 22nd St. at S and T Streets. Driven by Patrick Hayes (August Steen was pipeman), overturned on Feb. 16, 1914 at the corner of 10th and S Streets trying to avoid hitting a butcher wagon driven by Clarence Cuddy. Engine was on way to fire at 11th & X Streets -- Sacramento Bee, Feb. 16, 1914, p. 1, c. 5.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 2 photographic prints : cardboard mount ; 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. and 7 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001384086CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-7356
Language: English
Subject: Traffic accidents--California--Sacramento
Fire engines & equipment--California--Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Group portraits
Place: California
Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)

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