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- Description:
- Half-length sepia-toned portrait of the firefighter, Charles Robert Kline, wearing the dress uniform of the Detroit Fire Department taken around 1896. Bottom of backing card embossed with a series of seals for the Photographers Association of America, 1896, and the logo and address of the McMichael Photography Studio. Autograph on verso reads, "Charles Robert Kline."
- Date Issued:
- 1896-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Firemen's Fund Association membership certificate, printed by the Detroit Lithographic Office, and issued to John McDuff on March 4, 1874. The document bears the signatures of President John Hyland, Treasurer James A. Elliott, and Secretary John Kendall, beside a green adhesive embossed Firemen's Fund Association seal. Illustrations of a firefighter speaking into a bugle, as two other firefighters hold a hose, as well as of a team of firefighters riding in an early self-propelled steam-driven fire engine are on the left side of the certificate. The certificate is mounted on linen.
- Date Issued:
- 1874-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- 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
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo of 4 firemen who are standing in front of the open doors of a fire station. Handwriting on the verso notes, "Chemical #1" and "Left to Right: M. Donahue, Steavens, Charles Knoblesdorf, T. Schielt."
- Date Issued:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photograph of two uniformed firefighters posed between three horses, which they are holding by the bit rings outside of the doorway of a brick stable.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned glossy photo showing a group of 12 firemen in uniform. Seven men standing in the back row and five men are seated in front. The heavy wood doors of a fire station building can be seen in the background. Handwriting on the verso shows "Year 1904, Detroit Fire Dept. Engine Co. No. 3, Clifford St. at the head of Griswold. Standing, left to right: Staub, E. Burgess, Tim Shea, W. Martin, F. Schoenherr, C. Howley, Roberts. Seated, left to right: L. Kenoy, Lt. P. Slavin, Capt. Courtney, Lt. J. Gies, Cadet Pelzer."
- Date Issued:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photograph of Detroit Engine Company No. 9 exiting a fire station with a horse-drawn Amoskeag steam engine. A team of three horses pull the equipment, driven by a fireman, a second fireman is seated beside him, while a third fireman is standing on the rear of the engine behind the water tank. Engine Company #9 was located at the northwest corner of East Larned and Riopelle Streets. (The building was razed in 1961 for urban renewal.)
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Mounted sepia-toned group portrait photograph of seven uniformed firefighters. The original accession record identified two of the men standing in the top row--although it is unclear as two which exactly--as James Shea, and Timothy Callahan, and listed Richard Filbin and John O'Neil as being among the three men seated in the front. The man at the top right wears a helmet and belt identifying him as a member of Continental Company No. 8. He rests his hand on the shoulder of the men seated in front of him who wears a kepi hat and a belt also with the number "8." The two men standing in the center wear matching uniforms including firefighter belts identifying them as belong to one of the rescue companies. The both rest their hands on the shoulder of the man seated below them in the center, who wears a kepi hat, and a firefighter belt, the writing on which, "Stee[...]," is rendered partially illegible by glare. The man on the top right wears a helmet and firefighter belt which identifies him as a member of Neptune Company No. 2. A man with a kepi hat, and a rescue company belt sits in the lower right. Two helmets from Ladder Company No. 1 are positioned on the ground between the seated subjects. The photo is mounted on beige cardstock.
- Date Issued:
- 1875-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned group portrait photograph of the firefighters of K.C. Barker Company No. 4, posed with their horse-drawn fire engine in front of their fire station, presumably at Orchard Street and Fifth Street during a memorial event for Abraham Lincoln. A young girl in a dress decorated with a ribbon, a harp, a small portrait of Lincoln, banners, garland, and a small flag are on the engine. The majority of the firefighters wear matching shirts, pants, helmets, and belts printed with "K.C. Barker." The men standing on the engine wear peaked caps, and one standing on the rear also wears a belt identifying him as an engineer. Two of the men on the far left hold bugles. One of them wears a "foreman," belt, the other wears one that is only partially legible, "2nd A[...]." The two men to their right both lean on an upright hose nozzle. The station in the background is a two-story brick structure, and two people peer from its upper windows. A hose apparatus is in the street on the left edge of the frame. Several spectators are also visible in the background. Text underneath the photo's bottom right edge reads "Photo by Randall Detroit." The photo is mounted on linen and on board.
- Date Issued:
- 1865-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Cabinet card bearing a sepia-toned head-and-shoulders portrait photograph of Detroit Fire Commissioner Lucretius H. Cobb. Handwriting on the verso notes "ex-comm., Lucretius H. Cobb." This photograph is one of a series of eight photos of former Detroit Fire Department Commissioners. The decorative engraved logo of the photographer's studio (Randall) has been torn off of the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1867-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
