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- Description:
- Photograph. A mounted, sepia-toned print of a "flashlight photo" of a firehouse interior where a fire engine is hitched up to a pair of horses and surrounded by ten firefighters--four riding on the engine, three handling the horses with another approaching, one opening the door, and the last sliding down the fire pole. A number 3 is visible on the stack of the fire engine, suggesting this is Engine Company No. 3. "John Forster & Son, Photographers, Manufrs. of Picture Frames. 178 & 180 Gratiot Ave., Detroit, Mich." printed on verso.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photograph of a team of three Detroit Fire Department horses fully bridled and pulling an engine, as part of the ceremonial final run of a horse-drawn Detroit Fire Department apparatus on April 10, 1922 on Woodward Avenue. Two men are seen faintly in the distance driving the team. On verso it is noted, "For Hon. H.C. Murphy, from the late Augusta D. von Schrader, Last Run of the Fire Horses."
- Date Issued:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photographic print of a group of nine firefighters of Chemical Company No. 6 posing with their horse-drawn fire engine in front of their fire house at Elmwood and Fort Street. The foremost driver is Martin Cooney, who would later become superintendent of horses.
- Date Issued:
- 1891-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Two sepia-toned photographic prints mounted to opposite sides of heavy cardstock. The image on the recto shows a horse-drawn fire engine crossing an intersection. A heavily treed area, likely Grand Circus Park, is visible in the background. The base of a moonlight tower is at the right. A boy peers toward the camera while stepping into the street in the foreground on the right. The picture on the verso depicts a man in a bowler hat and sport coat standing atop a bridge across a canal. A large building and several trees are visible across the canal in the background.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Black and white print negative depicting a harness race. A pair of horses, each pulling a driver in a sulky race from the left edge of the frame. The announcer's booth, bearing the date July 17, 1888 is in the center of the frame. A row of spectators is at the bottom of the frame. More spectators, some with carriages and horses are on the opposite side of the track, around and in front of the booth. Edge of source image is printed into this negative reprograph.
- Date Issued:
- 1888-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Views
- Description:
- Black and white print, presumably an enlargement of a glass negative, showing a horse with a bridle, yolk, and harness trapped in mud up to its shoulder along East Nevada Avenue. A crowd is gathered around the horse, visible in frame as feet and legs among piles of bricks and boards on the far side of the horse, and shadows of men in hats in the foreground. A partially out of frame man on the left pulls a chain in an effort to free the horse. Another partially out of frame man in front of him holds the end of a rope tied to the horse. A backwards caption stretches across the bottom of the frame, "[S]tuck in mud on E. Nevada Ave. Detroit, Mich. 191[...]."
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Color postcard depicting several horse-drawn carriages on Belle Isle, with people standing among them. Printed on verso: The Pony Carts on Belle Isle, are one of the many attractions at this beautiful resort. A minimum charge is made for service, and they are kept constantly on the go by the many youngsters, who enjoy these rides to no small extent. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Nov 20, 1913.
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard