Westminster Fire Department

Photograph

Historical Society of Carroll County, Maryland

Name/Title

Westminster Fire Department

Entry/Object ID

2013.009.002

Description

Print, photographic. B/W print made from a glass-plate negative by Westminster Studio. Shows the front of the firehouse on East Main St., before the addition in 1927. There are 2 fire engines parked bumper to bumper across the front of the building. The men of the department are in their dress uniforms and posed on and next to the trucks. The truck by doors are open; only the first and second floors of the building are visible; the wall of Harbaugh's Livery Stable is visible at the viewing right. 8" x 10"

Acquisition

Accession

2013.009

Source or Donor

Reter, James E.

Acquisition Method

Gift

Exhibitions

Exhibition

Carroll at 250: People, Place, and the Making of History

Notes

The First 150 Years, 1987, p. 110

General Notes

Note

Negative is in the collection; see 2005.15. Truck at the viewing left is believed to be a Republic fire engine and the one on the right is a 1920 American LaFrance Company engine.