A night scene shows three white horses pulling a steam fire engine at a gallop, the driver braced on the apparatus. At left, firemen handle a hose beside a second engine while flames and smoke fill the background. The printed caption identifies the scene as the New York Fire Department. Horse-drawn steam fire engines remained in use in many American cities into the early 1900s; crews tended the boiler to keep steam up on the way to a fire.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
Write to me soon. for I
want to hear from you
when you come
Hello! Miss Emma
I got home all O.K.
Found every thing all
right. Say I see my
dream tonight. it
was good by for all
the time. I hope
it wont be that way
with you Fri, eve.
I am going to the Hall
Sat night. if nothing
happens I have much
to tell you. hope to see
you soon. N.B.B.
PostmarkedHarrisonburg, VA, September 3, 1908, 15:00
White border strip at right carrying the printed red caption and a handwritten message; light corner and edge wear.
Postmark: HARRISONBURG VA SEP 3 3-PM 1908. Divided-back card, German-made chromolithograph with A. C. Bosselman & Co., New York imprint; card toned, edge and corner wear.
Cite this card
Horse-drawn fire apparatus, New York Fire Department, 1908, postcard, c. 1908. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/horse-drawn-fire-apparatus-new-york-fire-department-1908. Accessed November 2, 2026.
