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Finding aid to the Los Angeles Fire Department photographs PC
019
PC 019
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
California Historical Society
Title: Los Angeles Fire Department photographs
Creator:
Durston, Patterson
Identifier/Call Number: PC 019
Physical Description:
1 folder
Date (inclusive): 1912-1915
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Container: P004
Consists of photographs and photographic postcards primarily documenting the Los Angeles
Fire Department Engine Company Number 28, Truck Company Number 7, located at 7th and
Figueroa streets. Photographs depict fire fighters battling fires, fire equipment, and
damage to buildings from fire. Images also depict fire fighters inside and outside of their
fire house, a fire truck prepared for the Rose Parade, and a parade on Broadway in downtown
Los Angeles. Includes four portraits of Engine Company 28 Captain, one including his family.
Three photographs, signed by Durston, show fire fighters responding to a call. One
photograph depicts Engine Company Number 27 fighting a hotel fire; another shows a steam
driven pumper at the scene of Fraser's Million Dollar Pier fire in Ocean Park in September
1912.
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Materials in this collection, which were created between 1912 and 1915, are in the public
domain in the United States. Permission to publish or reproduce is not required.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from the California Curio Company, 2007.
[Identification of item, date]; Los Angeles Fire Department photographs, PC 019; Box P004,
Folder 1; California Historical Society.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Fire fighting -- California -- Los Angeles -- Pictorial works
Fire departments -- California -- Los Angeles -- Pictorial
works
Fire fighters -- California -- Los Angeles -- Pictorial works
Fire fighting equipment -- Pictorial works
Fires -- California -- Los Angeles -- Pictorial works
Gelatin silver prints
Photographic postcards