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Grand Canal Celebration. : Fire department
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Grand Canal Celebration. : Fire department
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Image of a side view of a parade float driven by four horses with two postilions on horseback and two firefighters, one holding the pipe, two link-boys with lanterns, and a hand-pump manual fire engine labeled "15"; the image depicts a float in the Grand Canal Celebration for the opening of the Erie Canal in New York City on November 4, 1825.
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Image of a side view of a parade float drawn by four horses carrying a driver, three firefighters, with one fireman holding the hose pipe, a banner with an image of American Revolutionary War General Lafayette in military costume on a horse with the label "Lafayette October 21 1781" on a ribbon held in the mouth of an eagle, and a manual fire engine labeled "Lafayette 7" on the platform; the image depicts a float in the Grand Canal Celebration for the opening of the Erie Canal in New York City on November 4, 1825.
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Eagle Fire Engine No. 13. as she appeared in the procession on the fourth of November 1825 at the Grand Canal celebration in the city of New York
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Image of a side view of a parade float driven by four horses with four grooms wearing Middle Eastern Turkish costumes and turbans walking beside the horses and a firefighter and two link-boys with torches standing next to a manual fire engine labeled "Eagle Co. 13" with an American flag on the platform; the image depicts a float in the Grand Canal Celebration for the opening of the Erie Canal in New York City on November 4, 1825.
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This is to certify that ... has pursuant to law ... a member of the fire department
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Image of a blank stock certificate for membership in a fire department with a central image of firefighters fighting a large fire in a town with the ruins of buildings in the background and four vignettes of individual firemen including one beginning to pull a manual fire engine out of a fire house; a firefighter with a horn in the middle of the street pointing towards a burning building; a firefighter rescuing a woman in her bedroom; and a firefighter spraying water from a fire hose on flames; certificate and vignettes are decorated with an ornate border with images of firefighting equipment including fire hydrants, ladders, speaking trumpets, as well as censers, bells, and a vase of flowers.
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The fire show fighting the flames : department arriving at fire
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Image of a horse-drawn fire engine and firefighters racing to the scene of a raging fire at a drugstore, with police holding back onlookers; the poster advertises the fire-disaster show "Fighting the Flames" performed for audiences at amusement parks.
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Organized July 13th 1885. This is to certify that W. H. Conron is an exempt member of the Deposit Fire Department of Deposit, New York
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Image of a firefighter's exempt membership certificate from the Deposit Fire Department of Deposit, New York, made out in manuscript to W. H. Conron and dated August 5, 1907, with a lower vignette of firefighters fighting a fire in a burning building with manual fire engines, hoses, ladders, fire hydrants, shovels, and a fireman on a ladder with a speaking trumpet, and a top vignette of the ruins of a wooden building with spectators on the wooden sidewalk before it; the certificate is bordered with American flags, rope, and preventers.
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