Parade of "exempt" firemen

SUMMARY
The film shows a large group of people watching the approach of a color guard followed by a number of elderly marching firemen [Frame: 1734] pulling antique fire equipment [2486]. In the background is the white marble Washington Arch [0116], designed by Stanford White and completed in 1895 to commemorate the first inauguration of George Washington.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1903.

NOTES
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 1Oct1903; H36401.
Camera, Frederick S. Armitage.
Photographed September 21, 1903. Location: Washington Square Park (Greenwich Village), New York, N.Y.

SUBJECTS
Fire fighters--New York (State)--New York.
Parades--New York (State)--New York.
Fire engines--New York (State)--New York.
Fire extinction--New York (State)--New York--Equipment and supplies.
Washington Square (New York, N.Y.)
Actuality--Short.

RELATED NAMES
Armitage, F. S., camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

DIGITAL ID
lcmp002 m2b43291 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/lcmp002.m2b43291

Category:

Education

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• york
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