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Fire Fighters [B 7958] • Photograph

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Summary

Fire Fighters with equipment. Note on the back of the photograph reads "fire reels belonging to Insurance Company 1880 King William Street". Insurance buildings undertook the maintenance of a fire brigade. These amateur fire fighters wore scarlet uniforms and could often be seen dressing as they ran up the street to a fire. In 1850 Adelaide Corporation provided an "engine" consisting of an iron tank, cistern on a cart body with a force pump, leather hose and a ladder. This appears to be the apparatus depicted in the photograph.

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Physical description

Photograph; 15 cm x 9.9 cm

Dates / Publication details

1865

Collection

Part of General Collection

Subject

Fire fighters -- South Australia -- Adelaide

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Digitisation information

Date

02/11/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,933 x 2,593 pixels (10.2 MP)

Size

30.63 MB

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