Contributed by Bangor Public Library
Description
A horsedrawn hook and ladder (Champion) fire engine of the Bangor Fire Department responding to a Pickering Square blaze on 29 March, 1891. This profile view shows a few of the hooks (attatched to long poles and used to pull burning material aside) still loaded on the engine; the ladders have been deployed against the side of Kirkpatrick and Jameson's market (14 Pickering Square).
About This Item
- Title: Hook and ladder at Pickering Square fire, Bangor, 1891
- Creation Date: 1891-03-29
- Subject Date: 1891-03-29
- Location: Bangor, Penobscot County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 10.4 cm x 13 cm
- Collection: Vickery Collection
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Firefighting equipment--Maine--Bangor
- Fire fighters--Maine--Bangor
- Fires--Maine--Bangor
- Bangor (Me.)--Fire, 1911
- Carts & wagons--Maine--Bangor
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