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- Description:
- A mounted sepia-tone photo of George Knowles in Chief Elliott's horse-drawn buggy in front of the firehouse for Engine Company No. 2, as noted on verso. The photo is mounted to brown cardstock.
- Date Issued:
- 1891-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo of a horse-drawn, steam-powered fire engine in operation. Two firemen appear to be monitoring the engine while a boy and girl stand nearby. Small clouds of smoke and steam can be seen near the engine. Houses and wood utitlity poles are visible in the background.
- Date Issued:
- 1905-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Oval-shaped sepia-toned full length portrait photograph of Detroit Fire Chief James R. Elliott's pet dog. The dog appears to be a Border Collie. An oval-shaped sticker on upper right corner of the recto is marked in ink with "13." The verso bears several comments in pencil, including: "Pet Dog," "J. R. Elliott," "1 in wall frame," "no price given," "Fire Dept #39," and "1880."
- Date Issued:
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Mounted, sepia-toned photographic print of the horse-drawn fire engine, Engine No. 8, with three firefighters and hitched three horses in front of a firehouse. Matting is a heavy cardstock with four black lines enclosing the photo and "Engine 8" in a blackletter script beneath it.
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Photographic Print (1 copy). Mounted, sepia-toned image of fireman, Clinton Pasco. The full-length portrait of Pasco shows him in his Detroit Firefighter uniform and hat. He is leaning on an ax handle held in his right hand with the blade of the ax resting on the floor and his left hand is placed on his hip with arm bowed out. His shirt has been hand-colored in purple/maroon and the number, "7," has been handwritten on his badge. (His shirt is not colored in the copy photo.) A small three-legged table is to the right of Pasco, with a figurine placed on the table top. Handwriting on verso notes, "Clinton Pasco."
- Date Issued:
- 1870-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Mounted sepia-toned photographic print of eight firefighters posing in front of their apparatus--a horse-drawn wagon with drivers at each end, stacked with ladders. Their firehouse is in the background. "Loaned by Mrs. Agnes Cooney Paul, 511 W. Hildale. Martin Cooney." written on verso. Depicted is either Ladder Company No. 2 or No. 6, with driver Martin Cooney who later became superintendent of horses.
- Date Issued:
- 1892-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Photograph. Glossy black and white photo of five firemen who are riding in a fire truck in a parade on Woodward Ave. at Campus Martius. In the background is the Golde Clothes store and also a crowd of people who are standing on the sidewalk. Handwriting on the verso notes "April 10, 1922; Parade; Last run of steam engines; Seagrave aerial truck." A blue ink stamp on the verso notes "Photograph by the Detroit News; Not to be Published."
- Date Issued:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Sepia-toned cabinet card photo showing the head and shoulders of an unidentified man who was associated with the Detroit Fire Department. The man is wearing a dark suit and tie and appears to be 60 years of age or older. Possibly, he was a fire commissioner. Handwriting on the verso shows "1895."
- Date Issued:
- 1895-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Charter of the Detroit Fire Department, bound in a red cover, organized on January 20, 1840, and published in this edition in 1878 by O.S. Gulley's Steam Printing House. "Return to Oliver Bourke, 32 Madison Avenue, Detroit," is printed on the front page of the book. Bourke is listed as a trustee of the fire department on that page.
- Date Issued:
- 1878-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Program booklet for the Fourth Annual Fireman's Ball held by the Association of Ex-Members Detroit Steam Fire Department at Bamlet's Hall on Monday, April 3, 1899. The booklet consists of a half-folded sheet bound with blue string ending in a brown tassel into a half-folded cover--since torn at the crease--with a color illustration of a firefighter using a hose, while another firefighter runs holding an ax and a hook in the background on the front, and a fire hydrant on the back. The program of dances to be performed as well as the list of committee members are contained within. The program was printed by Watko and Dietz at 690 Gratiot Avenue.
- Date Issued:
- 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
