Exterior view of the Alpine Hose Company No. 2 Fire House, located on Fifth (5th) Street near Rose Street in Georgetown, Colorado. The front of the building was built by the company in 1874, with storage for the hose carts on the first floor and a...
Georgetown (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Fire stations--Colorado--Georgetown--1950-1960.
Products manufactured by Gates Rubber Company on display. Top row: battery boxes, bumpers, wash rack hose, welding hose, garden hose, handlers, and air hose. Second row: Gates fan belts, water hose, radiator hose, and ball valves. Third row:...
Fire fighters (dressed in shorts and sleeveless shirts) are harnessed to a hose reel ready for a race on an unpaved Aspen, Colorado, street. Four men stand behind the hose reel ready to push. A man in a white, long-sleeved shirt, a vest,...
Aspen (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Aspen--1900-1910.; Racing--Colorado--Aspen--1900-1910.
The Independence Hose Company poses on Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, holding the leads to the hose cart which is in the background. They wear conductor's caps, and white, pullover bib shirts with wide lapels. In the background, spectators...
Independence Hose Company (Breckenridge, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890-1900.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890-1900.
Colorado City Hose Team pose in front of the diagonal batten door outside the brick fire station, South Twenty-sixth and Cucharas streets, El Paso County, Colorado. The men stand wearing dark underwear shirts and shorts with arms crossed and their...
Colorado City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Colorado City--1900-1910.; Men--Colorado--Colorado City--1900-1910.
Colorado City Hose Team are harnessed to their hose cart with flexed muscles outside the fire station, South 26th (twenty-sixth) Street at Cucharas, El Paso County, Colorado. The captain in a light colored turleneck sweater and long pants stands in...
Colorado City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Colorado City--1900- 1910.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Colorado City--1900-1910.
Firemen pose in front of a hose cart at West 5th Street at the Ball Park in Leadville, Colorado. The cart was given by H.A.W. Tabor and was decorated for the Labor Day parade in 1934 with a sign "Tabor Hose 1878" and paper streamers on the spokes....
Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.
The Littleton Fire Department poses with hose cart in front of the wood frame clapboard firehouse, Littleton, Colorado. The men wear light colored shirts, ties and soft peaked caps. Ed Bemis is the third from the right and C. E. Stephenson holds...
Littleton (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Littleton--1900-1910.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Littleton--1900-1910.; Fire stations--Colorado--Littleton--1900-1910.
Firemen from "Hook and Ladder No. 1" and "Woodie Fisher Hose No. 1," pose in uniforms and fire helmets at the Denver Fire Department "Central Station", on Lawrence Street, Denver, Colorado; some hold brass horns. Other firemen sit in windows and on...
Denver (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Boys--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.; Fire stations--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.
Fireman's Hall on Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, is a two story frame building featuring a gable roof with flat side extensions, a belfry, and a plate glass ground floor front with transoms. Lettering on the three front windows reads...
Breckenridge (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fireman's Hall (Breckenridge, Colo)--1880-1890.; Buildings--Colorado--Breckenridge--1880-1890.
View of the corner of Taos and Sixth (6th, Alpine) Streets, south up Taos, in Georgetown, Colorado. The lot on the left was the site of the McClellan Opera House, which burned in 1892; remnants of floors are visible. The side of the building beyond...
The Blue River Hose Company poses on Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, holding the leads to the hose cart which is in the background adorned with American flags. Their uniforms include conductor's caps and bib shirts with shield-shaped...
Blue River Hose Company (Breckenridge, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890-1900.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890-1900.
Hose Company #1 in front of old City Hall, 4th Avenue and Kimbark Street, Longmont, Colorado. The men are uniformed in flat top caps, shirts with breast bibs, belted dark trousers and white gloves. Their hose cart is displayed in center with a...
Longmont (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Longmont--1880-1900.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Longmont--1880-1900.
Men pose at Cache la Poudre and Nevada Avenues (northwest corner), Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, pulling a fire hose cart. A bell tower / shed has a sign: "Colorado College Hose Company No 4 (number four)."
Colorado College--1880-1890.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1880- 1890.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1880-1890.; Hoses--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1880-1890.;...
View of the Alpine Hose Company No. 2 firehouse, Georgetown, Colorado, looking southeast. The building, built in 1874, is of wood construction with a sloping roof, and has a false cornice on the front. "Alpine Hose No. 2" is painted on the front....
Georgetown (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Bell towers--Colorado--Georgetown--1940-1950.; Fire stations--Colorado--Georgetown--1940-1950.
Colorado City Hose Company No. 1 poses outside their false front fire station, El Paso County, Colorado. The firefighters include boys and men of various ages holding the rope of their hosecart with decorated wheels and fire hose nozzles.
Colorado City (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Colorado City--1870-1900.
Firemen race down Elk Avenue with their hose cart, during the Fourth (4th) of July parade in Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado. Spectators line street and the Grubstake Building is in background.
H.A.W. Tabor Hose Cart Team poses on May 4, 1879, in u-shape formation on Harrison Avenue, a dirt road in Leadville, Colorado. The firemen are in uniforms with jackets, hats, gloves and belts. The cart donated by Tabor is decorated with American...
Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.
Telluride Hose Team Number 1 on July 3, 1892, on Colorado Avenue in front of First National Bank, Telluride, Colorado, in annual race competition against Delta, Ouray, Rico and Grand Junction down one block length, that included unreeling two...
Firemen of the Central City Fire Department (Alert Hose Company) race in Central City (Gilpin County) Colorado; men harnessed to a hose reel wear shorts and long underwear, and include Thomas C. Bowden (Town Marshall) on the far right. Spectators...
Central City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Central City--1900- 1910.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.
Exterior view of La Junque Shoppe, formerly the Hose #1 Fire House and horse street railway car barns, at 704 Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado shows a two story brick building which has a decorative cornice, three second-story windows, a...
Leadville (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Leadville--1970-1980.; Fire stations--Colorado--Leadville--1970-1980.
Six men pull a hose reel up the hill past the Williams' Stables building and Washington Hall in Central City, Colorado. The reel has wrought iron decoration and is being guided by a fireman dressed in fireman's coat and hat. Four other men, two...
Central City (Colo.)--1910-1940.; Washington Hall (Central City, Colo.)--1910-1940.; Stables--Colorado--Central City--1910-1940.
Looking north up Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, is a view of the Fourth of July parade. In the left foreground, a hose cart adorned with American flags is being drawn by men marching in front of it; more marchers recede into the distance....
Fourth of July--1890-1900.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890-1900.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890-1900.
Southeast view of Georgetown, Colorado toward, the road to Green Lake, to the left of Leavenworth Mountain. Visible landmarks include the Clear Creek County Courthouse, a white wood construction building with a false front with "Clear Creek Court...
View of weathered wood storefronts on the west side of Rose Street between Fifth (5th) and Sixth (6th) Streets in Georgetown, Colorado. The Dives-Pelican Mining Company was located in this block. Two of the buildings have false fronts in front of...
View of a fire near Georgetown, Colorado. Boys and a man look toward the fire or watch a man as he aims a fire hose and shoots a stream of water through pine trees which are silhouetted against dense smoke. Another lank hose lies in a tangled heap...
View looking east on Sixth (6th, Alpine) Street in Georgetown, Colorado. In the street six firemen in pull a hose cart; two unwind the hose behind and another runs alongside. The brick Cushman Block is on the left, or north, side of the street;...
Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1910.
View of a street in Georgetown, Colorado, where men and boys are gathered around a firemen's hose cart. The cart been converted into a parade float and has been decorated with American flags and a banner that reads, "G. W. Hall Hose Company;" a...
Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1910.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1910.
A lone man shoots water from a hose onto a wooden building with a false front at the corner of Simpson Street and Michigan Avenue in Fowler (Otero County), Colorado. The hose is connected to a single fire engine, equipped with a pressurized water...
Fowler (Colo.)--1910-1940.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Fowler--1910-1930.; Fires--Colorado--Fowler--1910-1930.
A pickup truck marked "Apex Neon and & Sign Co." serves as the float for the Fire Department in Edgewater, Jefferson County, Colorado, as part of the parade celebrating the town's fiftieth anniversary in 1951. Four charter members, firemen since...
Edgewater (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Anniversaries--Colorado--Edgewater--1950-1960.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Edgewater--1950-1960.; Floats (Parades)--Colorado--Edgewater--1950-1960.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Edgewater--1950-1960.
View of the North Denver Police Station located at 3018 West 26th (Twenty-sixth) Street in the Jefferson Park Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The police station is a one story brick structure. A carved inset stone above the door reads: "Police...
Denver (Colo.). Police Department.--Buildings--1930-1950.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Jefferson Park (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood)--1930-1950.; Fire stations--Colorado--Denver--1930-1950.; Police stations--Colorado--Denver--1930-1950.
The Central Hose House, in Idaho Springs, Colorado, is a single story, rectangular structure with a hipped roof, overhanging bracketed cornice, and attached square bell tower. The first floor has two double wide doors for equipment access, which...
Idaho Springs (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Fire stations--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1970-1980.
The Buck Hose Company, Gunnison Volunteer Fire Department, financed by Elisa Buck, Gunnison businessman, on Main Street and Virginia, in front of the First Nation Bank, Gunnison, Colorado. The long line of fire fighters in uniform stand with...
Gunnison (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Gunnison--1880-1890.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Gunnison--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Gunnison--1880-1890.
View across Victor, Colorado, towards Gold Coin Mill as the August 21, 1899 fire begins to sweep across town. There appears to be a horse-drawn fire hose wagon laying hose on street with a team of horses; shows wooden frame houses on hillside, man...
Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.
Firemen pose in Greeley, Colorado. Their uniforms consist of conductor's caps, wide belts, and pullover bib shirts. The letters "G" enclosing "FD" are appliqued on their buttoned chest protectors. They hold the leads of their hose wagon, which has...
Greeley (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Greeley--1880-1890.; Uniforms--Colorado--Greeley--1880-1890.
Three firemen of the Blue River Hose Company in Breckenridge, Colorado, pose against a painted backdrop in their dress uniforms, including conductor's caps with metal badges, dark pants, wide belts with edges bound in white leather, and pullover...
Blue River Hose Company (Breckenridge, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.
Eleven firemen of the Blue River Hose Company in Breckenridge, Colorado, pose in their dress uniforms, including conductor's caps with metal badges, dark pants, wide belts with edges bound in white leather, and pullover bib shirts. Their shirts...
Blue River Hose Company (Breckenridge, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.