California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

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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

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Photographic 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. A cart and a horse-drawn fire engine are shown at the base of the building, facing towards the right. Men are posed on or near it, all wearing firemen's helmets, yet dressed in different clothes. Above, throngs of fire fighters are distributed along the roof and two stories of the brick building, which has been decorated with banners.

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Title 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

Subject buildings (adlf), Fire fighters (lcsh), Fire-departments (lcsh), Horses (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Fire department #2 (file heading), Los Angeles Fire Department (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Main Street & 1st Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1885

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1885

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2232

Identifier 12825 (accession number), CHS-12825 (call number), CHS-12825 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3161 (legacy record id), chs-m2232 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-2293 (legacy record id), 1-17-17 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3161

Unique identifier UC120156

Legacy Identifier CHS-12825.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.1 cm at 300dpi

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Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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