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

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

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

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 

Los Angels Fire Department's Company 14 horse-drawn fire engine, ca.1910 

Fire fighters putting out a fire in a walnut grove, [s.d.] 

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

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

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

Portrait of members of the Monrovia fire department standing in front of the local fire engine, 1909 

Portrait of Charles E. Miles, Los Angeles's last volunteer fire chief, ca.1870-1879 

Exterior view of St. Vincent's School between Hill Street and Sixth Street in Los Angeles, ca.1890 

Monrovia's first automated fire engine, 1909 

Orange grove in Riverside, ca.1890 

View of buildings burning in the fire following the earthquake in San Francisco, 1906 

Pseudo woodcut depicting buggies passing on Coronado Beach, San Diego, ca.1890 

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

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

Exterior view of the Arcadia Hotel in Santa Monica ca.1890 

Group portrait of Shriners posing in front of an Egyptian gateway in Long Beach, ca.1890