Fire Fighting & Rescue Books, Paper, & Photographs

ARTIFACT: This is a wonderful, unused real photo postcard of the South Shore, Massachusetts Fire Department Engine 3 from the 1910s. Number 3 is an Ahrens-Fox engine, and is shown on the postcard accompanied by a dozen firemen. VINTAGE: Circa 1910s...

ARTIFACT: This is a nice circa 1918 Allen Brothers Corporation of Boston, Massachusetts manufactured goods catalog. The company made many items such as signs and stamps, and also manufactured police and fire badges although this catalog only has two...

ARTIFACT: This is a Japanese fireman's axe/hook from the Edo period, also known as a "tomiguchi". The blade is triangular and used as a pick. The long oaken handle is ringed at intervals with steel, reinforced with rods of the same, and capped off at the...

ARTIFACT: This is an early dance card for the First Grand Ball of the Buena Vista Hose Company No.1 which took place at the Hiller-Hallock Opera House in Buena Vista, Colorado. The opera house was built in 1882 and is long gone. Inside, one of the dances...

ARTIFACT: This is a framed circa 1910s photograph of the Waynesboro, Pennsylvania Fire Truck No. 1 and its crew. They are posing in front of the town's Fire Hall, which was built in 1899. VINTAGE: Circa 1910s. SIZE: Approximately 11-3/8" in height by...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1890s cabinet photograph of Concord, New Hampshire Fire Chief William C. Green. Green is in his full uniform with his breast badge and a great cut-out style hat badge. Green was a machinist in the Granite State capital city's...

ARTIFACT: Cool, old 1890's Springfield, Massachusetts Fireman cabinet photo. The photo shows the fireman in full uniform and hat with badge. The bottom of the photo reads: "GOLDSMITH 374 MAIN ST. SPRINGFIELD MASS.". The reverse reads: "LARGEST AND FINEST...

ARTIFACT: This is a great old New Hampshire Department of Forestry forest fire prevention poster. Dramatically designed, the poster shows a charred landscape against a crimson sky and warns you to PREVENT FOREST FIRES Ð IT PAYS. The reverse of the poster...

ARTIFACT: This is a ruler advertising John Sise Insurance of Portsmouth, New Hampshire from the 1920s. The ruler reads PRESENTED BY THE FIREMAN'S FUND INSURANCE COMPANY JOHN SISE & COMPANY 3 MARKET SQUARE, PORTSMOUTH N.H. on its front and FIRE,...

ARTIFACT: Nice 1950's "Prevent Forest Fires" "Keep America Green" vintage poster published by the American Forest Product Industries Corporation. The poster shows a young girl in a blue dress touching an evergreen sapling with a deer in the foreground...

ARTIFACT: Fantastic mid-1930's Police & Fire Supplies Catalog #94 Darley & Co. Chicago, Illinois. Wonderful deco cover showing images of a policeman and fireman, a traffic light, and fire hose and reads: "MUNICIPAL SUPPLIES" across the top with...

ARTIFACT: This is a large circa 1900 Fire Police badge for the Neptune Fire District No. 1 of Neptune Township, New Jersey. Neptune Township is within Monmouth County, a part of the metropolitan area of neighboring New York. The badge is in silver-plated...