Composite photograph labeled "Fire Department -- early days" which shows two portraits and a horse-drawn engine, [s.d.] 

Two horse-drawn fire engines from Station 12, Los Angeles, ca.1890 

Early fire engine pulled by large muscular horses, up a hill on First Street, ca.1900 

Horse-drawn fire wagon speeding down the Fifth Street looking west from Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1900 

Fire fighters and steam-powered fire engines in action on Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1914 

Fire Station 15 with its engine (in service 1904-1950), ca.1915 

Fire Station 15 with a fire engine in front, ca.1890 

Los Angeles firefighters posing in front of a horse-drawn water cannon at the Los Angeles Fire Department, ca.1913 

Portrait of fire fighters and their engine posed on and in front of a brick building on the southeast corner of First Street and Main Street, ca.1885 

Fire station at Spring Street and Ninth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1887 

Team of horses pulling fifteen tons of barley at an unidentified location, 1900-1910 

Workers on a horse-drawn threshing machine near Brawley, ca.1910 

San Francisco Fire Department on parade at Temple Street and Grand Avenue, San Francisco (Los Angeles?), 1860-1910 

Citizens of Randsburg, including the fire department, gathered in the streets of the city, ca.1898 

Engine company number four in front of the Old Fire House on Plaza Street in Los Angeles, 1887 

Irrigation canal and horse-drawn carriages next to a residence near Brawley, ca.1910 

The Los Angeles Fire Department marching down Main Street looking north from Central Avenue in the first civic parade in L.A., July 4, 1871 

Los Angeles firefighters tending their water pumps during a fire at Third Street and Broadway, ca.1913 

The two-story Mission-style Fire Station Eleven at 1819 West Seventh Street, ca.1910 

Composite portrait of Los Angeles Fire Commissioners and Chief Strohm, ca.1902