Digital Collection
2012.020.158

Postcard

Fire Department Responding to an Alarm. Detroit, Mich.

Color postcard depicting an automobile and two horse-drawn vehicles full of firemen passing through an intersection with several bystanders on the sidewalk and onlookers in a building.
Printed on verso: The Detroit Fire Department is acknowledged the best conducted department in the country. This view shows one of the companies responding to an alarm with their new 30 H.P. Packard squad wagon in the lead. This machine has a speed of 75 miles an hour and carries 12 men.
Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jul 17, 1912.

Date
1912
Collection
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