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Firemen's promenade concert and ball. The Extinguisher and Batcheller Hose Companies will hold their first promenade concert and ball, in the town hall, North Brookfield, Thursday evening, Nov. 27th, 1879
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Cowing & Gleason Mfg. Co., Limited. Successors to Cowing & Co., established 1840. : Seneca Falls, N.Y. New York Chicago. St. Louis
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Image of a firefighter's exempt membership certificate from the Village of Watkins, New York, made out in manuscript to George H. Waite of the Rescue Hook and Ladder Company, and dated January 21, 1903; surrounded by eight vignettes depicting a goddess holding a spear and surrounded by mining and industrial equipment; a firefighter with a speaking trumpet climbing onto a building; a wounded firefighter at the bottom of a ladder being helped by a female nurse and other firemen; side views of a steam fire engine and a manual fire engine; a hook and ladder truck and hose carriage on the street before a building; a firefighter bringing a rescued child down a ladder towards her mother; and firefighters climbing a ladder to bring a hose up to the roof of a building; the certificate has an orange embossed seal of the Village of Watkins at lower center.
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Image of a firefighter's membership certificate from the Albany Engine Co. No. 1 of Albany, Oregon, made out in manuscript to Archibald Monteith on June 3, 1875, and surrounded by vignettes of firefighters including a firefighter fighting a fire with a fire hose; a firefighter on a ladder rescuing a young girl; a firefighter with a speaking trumpet standing in a street pointing towards a fire; and an eye-level view of a city street with a burning building and ruins with a steam fire engine, hose carriage, firemen, and utility poles in the foreground; the certificate is bordered by images of fire hydrants, ladders, hoses, and preventers.
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Image of a firefighter's exempt membership certificate from the City of Buffalo made out in manuscript for Charles M. Tainter (presumably Charles M. Taintor) dated February 23, 1857, and signed by Mayor Frederick P. Stevens and City Clerk William H. Albro, with a top center vignette of a fireman standing in the center of a town square in Buffalo, New York, next to a woman and child, a man dressed in a costume similar to that of a Roman soldier with a robe, spear, sandals, and hat, and a kneeling woman writing a document that begins "Certificate of Disch[arge]", with firefighting equipment in the foreground including a hose, ladder, hat, rope, and speaking trumpet, and buildings, a statue, fire hydrant, lighthouse, steamboat, ship masts, and the shores of Lake Erie in the background and a flying angel with wings and a trumpet at top center obscuring a banner that reads "Buffalo Fire Department."; the certificate has a blue embossed seal of the City of Buffalo and a vignette at bottom center of firefighting equipment including preventers, censers, and ax.
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Image of vignettes of elevation views of the sides steam fire engines, fire hose trucks, and related firefighting vehicles with a central image of a steam fire engine with red wagon wheels labeled "Brooklyn 10" and "B F D 10" with city buildings in the background, and surrounding vignettes of nine vehicles including one steam engine labeled "Arba Read," one with two men standing next to it, another with a man in a top hat and firefighter's cape that reads "Amoskeag"; the borders of the vignettes are decorated with firefighting equipment including ladders, hoses, speaking trumpets, hats, torches, lanterns, and a firefighter blowing into a trumpet.
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Button fire engine works : Holroyd & Co. Proprietors Waterford, Saratoga Co., N.Y
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