    
Title: Fireman carrying a bugle Description: A volunteer fireman carrying a bugle so that he could periodically give the alarm to clear the path of an approaching fire engine, runs ahead of the vehicle while responding to a fire alarm; fire departments were strictly volunteer organizations in this era and were woefully inadequate in safeguarding the city on a block by block basis, which eventually demanded and got the establishment of a municipal fire department in this (1867) and all other countrywide cities; carriages; carts; fire departments; fire engines; firemen; horses; Location: New York, New York, 1866 Keywords: pedestrians, policemen, street traffic, wagons Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 4125 x 3153 (13.01 MPixels) (1.31) Print Size: 34.9 x 26.7 cm; 13.8 x 10.5 inches File Size: 37.24 MB (39,043,826 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000095787 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
