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- Description:
- Cabinet card bearing a sepia-toned head-and-shoulders portrait photograph of Detroit Fire Commissioner Benjamin Vernor. Handwriting on the verso indicates "ex-commissioner, Benjamin Vernor." This photograph is one of a series of eight photos of former Detroit Fire Department Commissioners. The decorative engraved logo of the photographer (Randall) has been torn off of the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1870-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Sepia-toned composite group portrait of the members of the Detroit Fire Department in 1890, composed of 207 separate head-and-shoulder portraits of unidentified firefighters arranged in rows on the right, and, on the left, portraits of Chief James Battle, Assistant Chiefs James R. Elliott and Mark H. Gascoigne, First Battalion Chief John Kendall, Second Battalion Chief James C. Broderick, Third Battalion Chief William J. Gowan, Superintendent of Horses Allan. Armstrong, and Master Mechanic Francis Beaufait, as well as a photo of Detroit Fire Department Headquarters on the northeast corner of Wayne Street and Larned Street. Images of several pieces of firefighting equipment for a design surrounding the portrait of Battle, and the left edge of the image. A.G. McMichael, Artist & Photo, 210 & 212 Woodward Ave. Copyright 1891 by A.G. McMichael" is printed in the lower left corner.
- Date Issued:
- 1891-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Mounted sepia-toned group portrait photograph of the firefighters of Hose Company No. 1 posed with their horse-drawn hose apparatus, in front of the entrance of the Detroit Fire Department Headquarters. Each man in identified through a handwritten caption beneath them. W. Heck sits on the driver's bench of the apparatus, holding the reigns of the two-horse team. F. Arnold, T. Drury, C. Walsh, and G.S. Goldwater stand lined up beside the apparatus. A relief over the door of the headquarters reads, "Fire Department Headquarters, 1882." Two large bay entrances to the building are also in the background. The bay doors for the one behind the Hose Company No. 1's apparatus are open. "Hose Co. No. One, Taken August 15th 1903." is handwritten in ink at the bottom center of the photo. The photo is mounted on grey mat board.
- Date Issued:
- 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Sepia-toned glossy photo of the horse-drawn ladder wagon and crew of the Wyandotte Fire Department. The photo shows six firemen in the wagon and one man standing on the ground near the rear. On the side of the wagon, the letters, "W.F.D.," can be seen. The open doors of the fire station are visible at the left side of the photo. A 2-story brick residential and commercial business building is visible in the background. Handwriting on the verso notes "1912, Wyandotte, Mich., Wyandotte Fire Dept., Chief - Floyd Collard."
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Sepia-toned cabinet card photo of an unidentified fireman who is standing. He has a mustache and is wearing a uniform that consists of a long, double-breasted coat, decorative belt, and hat. The belt buckle shows the number, "6," and the badge on the coat shows the number, "24." The name of the photographic studio is printed in gold-colored lettering at the bottom of the photo: "C. E. Alvord, successor to F. Friend, 244 Woodward Avenue, Detroit." Handwriting on the verso shows "#16."
- Date Issued:
- 1887-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Sepia-toned head-and-shoulders cabinet card portrait photograph of an unidentified fireman. Badge on hat reads "184", handwritten on back "#19." It's mounted onto a green card backing that bears the name and address of the photographers, Holcombe and Metzen of 222 and 220 Woodward Avenue. The reverse also includes a print of an engraving serving as a more elaborate logo for the photographers, consisting of framed photo of a woman in profile, placed before a partially drawn curtain, which eclipses a half sunburst above.
- Date Issued:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Large sepia-toned photograph of Detroit Fire Department Chief James C. Broderick and driver George Appel, seated in an Oldsmobile Autocrat, which is parked on a brick street, beside a brick wall. "DFD" is painted on the car's door. The photo is mounted on cardstock. A typewritten caption affixed to the verso reads: Chief James Broderick, pictured here in the driver's seat of an early motorized chief's car, served in Detroit's Fire Department for fifty continuous years. He was one of the few men who witnessed the passing from the hand engines to steam engines and from the steam engines to gasoline motor-driven apparatus. He saw the department grow from a small group of volunteers to a department of over 1,700 men. His first big fire after taking charge of the Fire Department was the spectacular Michigan Stove Works fire, which occurred on January 8, 1907, one week after he became Chief. The biggest fire in Chief Broderick's time was the D.M. Ferry Seed Company fire on New Year's Day, 1886, with a loss of a million dollars, a huge sum in those days.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Cabinet card bearing a sepia-toned head-and-shoulder portrait photograph of a Detroit Fire Department Chief James Battle. He wears a kepi hat with five crossed bugles on its badge, with a double-breasted coat. The photo was previously housed in the center of a three-part cardstock frame between photos of two other ranking firefighters.
- Date Issued:
- 1881-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Cabinet card bearing a sepia-toned head-and-shoulders portrait photograph of Detroit Fire Commissioner Jerome Croul. This photograph is one of a series of eight photos of former Detroit Fire Department Commissioners. The decorative engraved logo of the photographer (Randall) has been torn off of the verso of the cabinet card photo. The proof bears the name of "Geo. Francis Train" at the bottom, and a stamp for Randall, 220 & 222 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich." is shown on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1872-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Sepia-toned gelatin silver photo of five firemen, a horse-drawn hose wagon, and a horse-drawn steam fire engine as they are leaving the fire station. The group is Steam Engine Company No. 9 and the number, "9," can be seen on the side of the hose wagon just below the driver's seat. The brick fire station and open doors are visible in the background. A carved stone above the doors shows "A.D. 1901." Several other brick buildings can be seen in the background on the left side of the photo.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
