- Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Atlanta Hook & Ladder Compnay, No. 1
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Kenan Research Center
- Date of Original:
- 1872
- Subject:
- Fire fighters--Georgia--Atlanta
Fire stations--Georgia--Atlanta
Firefighting equipment--Georgia--Atlanta
Hotels--Georgia--Atlanta
Buildings--Atlanta--Georgia
Men--1870-1880
Clothing & dress--1870-1880
Atlanta Fire Department (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of the volunteer fire company Hook & Ladder Company, No. 1 in front of the first Kimball House on Whitehall Street (now Peachtree Street) in Atlanta, Georgia. The apparatus is a second-size Babcock Hook & Ladder truck.
Mansard roof; firemen; fire crew; ladders;
Atlanta Hook & Ladder Company No. 1 went into service March 25, 1851. Three more volunteer companies formed by 1860 when they were combined under one fire department. The Civil War devastated the small volunteer fire department which lost all its fire apparatus. The fire department rebuilt and remained all-volunteer until 1882 when the six existing stations were dissolved and three paid fire stations were created to form the Atlanta Fire Department. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 170.2018.001
ahc1702018001.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/athpc/id/2271
- Additional Rights Information:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S Code) Permission ofr use must be cleared through The Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Extent:
- 8 x 10 in.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
