The Salt Lake City (Utah) Fire Department Photograph Collection, n.d.

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Summary Description
Repository:Utah State Historical Society
Call number:Mss C 457
Creator: Iverson, Leonard, Collector.
Title:Salt Lake City (Utah) Fire Department Photograph Collection, n.d.
Quantity:11 fds.
Abstract: Negatives and prints of firemen and equipment during early twentieth century.

Topics:
Fire departments -- Utah -- Salt Lake City -- Equipment and supplies -- Photographs.

Persons:
Iverson, Leonard,

Organizations:
Salt Lake City (Utah). -- Photographs.
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Background

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Scope and Content

Photographs and negatives of the Salt Lake City Fire Department including stations, personnel, and equipment.
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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation:

Salt Lake City (Utah) Fire Department Photograph Collection, n.d., Utah State Historical Society.

Acquisition Information:

Gift of Leonard Iverson.

Restrictions on Use

The Salt Lake City (Utah) Fire Department Photograph Collection, is the physical property of the Utah Historical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah. Literary rights, including copyright, may belong to the authors or their heirs and assigns. Please contact the Historical Society for information regarding specific use of this collection.

Processing Information:

Collection processed by Susan Whetstone

Finding aid compiled by Susan Whetstone

Finding aid edited by Linda Thatcher

Collection cataloged by Richard Saunders, 1989 (RLIN ID: UTSX89-A3269).

Finding aid encoded for the World Wide Web by Craig Ringgenberg, 2000.

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Container list

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Contents

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Leonard Iversen, donor
1. Two firemen
2. Fireman
3. Horse drawn fire wagons
4. Men/horses/fire wagons
5. Firemen's Band
6. Hose No. 1--Fire wagon built by Knight & Sons
7. Group with 1930 Mack--Station No. 6
8. Peck, Victor, Fred Mowery, John Hansen with horse drawn fire wagon
9. Hansen, John (R) with firemen in front of a station
10. Hansen Captain C., 1940
11. Firemen in sleeping quarters
12-13. Panoramic view--Fire station

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Personnel
1. Group at dinner table
2. Firemen in kitchen
3. Group by fire truck No. 133
4. Fireman sleeping off Thanksgiving Dinner-- No. 4 Station, 1974
5. Group of "retired" firemen in firemen jackets
6. Early uniform
7. "Fire Brigade" group of young women
8. Early group of firemen
9. Groundbreaking ceremony
10. Group of firemen, 1911
11. Group--fire station
12. Groundbreaking ceremony
13. Early group of firemen in formal attire
14. Early uniform (captain?)
15. Group in uniform
16. Early fire equipment
17. Horse drawn fire wagons outside station

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Personnel (cont)
1. Rogers, Leo, Lee Wirthlin with deer tied on car-- Fire Station No. 4, 1936
2. Seventh Annual Firemen's Relief Fund Ball, 1914
3. Group--Station No. 5
4. Interior--shop
5. Firemen's Band
6. Group eating by truck
7. Calisthenics
8. Fireman making bed
9. Making toys
10. Man at desk
11. Men in library
12. Switchboard
13. Circuit board
14. Members roll
15. Salt Lake City Firemen's Relief Association certificate, 1909

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Stations
1-4. Station
5. Station No. 1
6-7. Station
8. J. K. Piercey Station
9-13. Station No. 1
14. Station No. 5
15. Station
16. J. K. Piercey Station
17. Station No. 5 [color]

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Miscellaneous
1. Parade
2. Children at station
3. Open house demonstrating rescue using ladder-- Fire Prevention Week
4. Children--fire station
5. Demonstrating jumping off roof
6-7. Fire truck No. 149
8. Parade
9. Children--fire station
10. Children looking into fire engine
11. Nurses holding fire hose
12. No. 4 Engine decorated for carrying casket of Fireman Earnest Cardwell, 1935
13. Children visiting fire station
14. Ottinger Hall
15. Fire--Salt Lake City & County Building
16. Grand Opera House
17. Fireman using hose
18. State Work Shop for Adult Blind
19-20. Firemen
21. Firemen sitting on beds
22. Funeral
23-24. Firemen

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Miscellaneous (cont)
1-2. Fire
3. Aerial--Airport area [2 copies]
4. Fire hose
5. Old engine
6. Funeral
7. Fire--Salvation Army
8. Fire box
9. Miller, Warren "Hack", 1940
10. Children holding hose
11. Hansen, Chief LaVere
12. Big Dan
13. Bangerter, Governor Norman with model of fire engine
14. Baseball team
15. Fire engine with men

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Miscellaneous (cont)
1. Basketball team [2 copies]
2. Dinner [2 copies]
3. Demonstrating carrying person
4. Group at station
5. Salt Lake Firemen's Relief Association
6. Station No. 3
7. Drawing of horse drawn fire engine (2 copies)
8. Horse (2 copies)
9. Fire--Antiques store
10. Old engine
11. Paramedics
12. Fire truck with men
13. Big Dan

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Miscellaneous (cont)
1. Fire truck No. 149--Salt Lake City Fire Department
2. Fire truck [poor image]
3. Old chief's car
4. Engine on street [poor image]
5. Old engine
6. Station No. 6
7. Fire truck No. 121--Salt Lake City Fire Department [2 copies]
8. Old wagon with rolled hose [2 copies]
9. Rescue truck--Salt Lake City Fire Department
10. Station No. 7
11. Old fire car
12. Engine
13. Rolled hose car [2 copies]
14-15. Fire truck--U.S. Army

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Miscellaneous (cont)
1. Fire truck
2. Firemen in shorts by truck (FYP)
3. Fire administrators [portrait]
4. Panorama--Band
5. Horse drawn fire trucks in parade
6. Station No. 1
7. Old truck [2 copies]
8-11. Truck--Sandy Fire Department
12. Early fire engine and firemen
13. Early photo of firemen
14. Chief/Captain in uniform
15. Fireman by flag--Wasatch No. 2

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Salt Lake City Fire Department [50 Negatives]

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Salt Lake City Fire Department [49 Negatives]