Cleveland fire department

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Channel: Library of Congress · 2010 · Education

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SUMMARY
The subject is the activities of a fire department that can be seen coming out of the fire engine house located across the street from the camera position. The action must have been a drill or rehearsal as the street is lined with people awaiting the arrival of the three pumpers, the two hook-and-ladder wagons, and the four personnel wagons that made up the contingent of fire equipment.

NOTES
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company; 17Jun03; H32791.
Cameraman, G. W. Bitzer.
Filmed October 18, 1900 in Cleveland.

SUBJECTS
Fire departments.
Actuality--Shorts.

RELATED NAMES
Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

DIGITAL ID
awal 1536 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/awal.1536

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