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Constitution and By-laws of the Fire Department of Gold Hill, Nevada : organized May 22d, 1867 : revised, May, 1878
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
Image of a firefighter's membership certificate from the Gold Hill Fire Department of Gold Hill, Nevada, made out in manuscript to H. H. Flagg and dated May 22, 1867, with multiple vignettes including bare-chested goddesses riding two horses, with one holding a triton; a manual fire engine and a steam fire engine; a firefighter returning a rescued baby to its mother; a wounded firefighter on a mattress being nursed by a young woman while another fireman on a ladder behind them lowers a bundle tied in a rope; two eye-level exterior views of firehouses, both labeled "Yellow Jacket Engine Ho."; and an elevated landscape view presumably of the town of Gold Hill, Nevada; the certificate and vignettes are decorated with borders containing ivy leaves, bean pods, grapes, and other plants and firefighting equipment including fire hydrants, hoses, ladders, hats, speaking trumpets, a lantern, censers, and axes.
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