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Horse-drawn fire apparatus responding to a fire, New York Fire Department

Subjects
Great Fires & FirefightingHorses
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1907 (Golden Age)
Front of Horse-drawn fire apparatus responding to a fire, New York Fire Department, Miss Emma J Turner, VA, USA, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
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Back of Horse-drawn fire apparatus responding to a fire, New York Fire Department, Miss Emma J Turner, VA, USA, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
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About this subject

A dramatic night scene of horse-drawn steam fire engines racing to a blaze. Three white horses pull a steamer with its driver, while firemen with a hose and a second engine appear at left, flames and smoke filling the background.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

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.

PublisherA. C. Bosselman & Co.
NEW YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT. 1244 --- Post Card Place the Stamp Here. One Cent for United States, and Island Possessions, Cuba, Canada and Mexico. Two Cents For Foreign. Made in Germany. A. C. Bosselman & Co., New York.
PostmarkedHarrisonburg, VA, September 3, 1908, 15:00
Addressed to
Miss Emma J Turner

DISM 4 -, Seneca, Virginia

Postcard record

Postmarked, Harrisonburg, VA
Series1244
ConditionGood
Place addressedMiss Emma J Turner, DISM 4 -, Seneca, VA
Place mentionedNew York, NY
PublisherA. C. Bosselman & Co., A. C. Bosselman & Co., New York, NY, New York, NY
NotesWhite border strip at right carrying the printed red caption and a handwritten message; undivided-back era; 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.

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Horse-drawn fire apparatus responding to a fire, New York Fire Department, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/horse-drawn-fire-apparatus-responding-to-a-fire-new-york-fir. Accessed October 5, 2026.