Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of an elevation view of the side of a manual fire engine used by the Red Jacket Veteran Firemen's Association of Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a hose, two lanterns, a bell, two straw seat cushions, and decorations including a painted floral trim, two feather plumes, two American flags, and two water buckets and center condenser case decorated with images of bare-chested women; the carriage body is labeled "Red Jacket" and has a Masonic symbol, and a center rod is labeled "Faithful to Duty True to [?]ship"; there is a burning log torch at lower right and left of image.
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Image of an elevation view of the side of a manual fire engine used by the Franklin Engine No. 3 company of Brooklyn, New York, labeled "Franklin" on the red carriage body and "Franklin 3" at the front; the vehicle was built by William Jeffers of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
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Image of a firefighter's exempt membership certificate from the Owego Fire Department of Owego, New York, made out in manuscript to C. G. Carter of the Ahwaga Hose Company and dated October 1896, with surrounding vignettes of fire equipment including a hose carriage; a manual fire engine labeled "1862"; a hook and ladder truck with hand buckets labeled "Defiance"; a steam fire engine; two fire hydrants; and a bottom image of an eye-level landscape view of the Tioga County Courthouse building in Owego with a gazebo, trees, and park around it; the certificate has an embossed gold seal of the Tioga County Fire Department.
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Image of an eye-level street view of the exterior of the four-story firehouse of the Hibernia Fire Engine Company No. 1 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with firefighters standing in the street wearing top hats, uniforms, and green capes decorated with an image of an American eagle and the letters "F" and "A"; some hold speaking trumpets, a trumpet, and fire ax; the firemen stand around a small dog, fire hose carriage, and green double-deck manual fire engine decorated with images of an American eagle, an angel, and a goddess next to an eagle on the center condenser case; children sit on a brick wall next to the station and spectators look out from the windows of neighboring building; the firehouse has an American flag on the roof and the labels "Hibernia," "Instituted 1752," and "Incorporated 1841" on the front and a large "1" on the side.
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Image of a central image of a steam fire engine with two firefighters being drawn by two horses through a city street with a burning building in the background and a fire hydrant in the foreground; with seven vignettes consisting of five firefighting vehicles, a bundle of firefighting accessories including a ladder, hook, pick, lantern, speaking trumpet, and fireman's hat labeled "8", and an elevated view of the exterior of the Button Fire Engine Co. factory buildings in Waterford, New York, with someone aiming a stream of water from a hose over the roof of a building.
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Image of a membership certificate from the Firemen's Benevolent Society of Hartford, Connecticut, made out in manuscript to William H. Porter and dated February 8, 1858, with a central image of firefighters with hoses, ladders, and manual fire engines amassed on the street and tree-filled park before the Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut, to fight a fire burning in a nearby building labeled with the signs "Elihu Geer Job & Card Printer" and "Case Nevers & Co."; with surrounding buildings labeled "Eagle Tavern" "Exchange Office" and "Oswin Welles," and spectators and a displaced family with their household belongings standing on the street; with a small vignette of a fire hose carriage at bottom center; the image presumably depicts the August 9, 1839, fire in the Mitchell Building on State Street.
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