Hook and Ladder Truck

Collection: This image is from the Jacob F. Wieners, Jr. Photographs and is depicted in a glass plate negative, print, and digital image.; Image is part of the Jacob F. Wieners Photographs

Date: ca. 1905; 1900 Material: unknown material on plate glass; gelatin silver print Dimension: 8 x 10 inches (glass plate negative); 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Creator: Jacob F. Wieners, Jr. Identifier: aql:11861 jfw-000315 jfw-000315.tif

Description: A photograph of a hook and ladder truck belonging to Eagle Hook & Ladder Co. No. 1 showing that, in addition to ladders, the vehicles carried other equipment. Here, in a metal basket slung underneath the carriage, what appears to be a hand-held fire extinguisher. Note the headlight on the truck, at right.

Title : Hook and Ladder Truck

Collection : aql:11775; vital:1

Creator : Jacob F. Wieners, Jr.

Date : ca. 1905; 1900

Summary/Description : A photograph of a hook and ladder truck belonging to Eagle Hook & Ladder Co. No. 1 showing that, in addition to ladders, the vehicles carried other equipment. Here, in a metal basket slung underneath the carriage, what appears to be a hand-held fire extinguisher. Note the headlight on the truck, at right.

Subject : Fire engines; Eagle Hook & Ladder Co. No. 1 (College Point, New York, N.Y.)

Relation : This image is from the Jacob F. Wieners, Jr. Photographs and is depicted in a glass plate negative, print, and digital image.; Image is part of the Jacob F. Wieners Photographs

Rights : Copyright holder unknown

Coverage : 16th Street (now 125th Street) near 4th Avenue (now 18th Avenue), College Point, NY College Point (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : glass plate negative; black and white print; digital image

Format : unknown material on plate glass; gelatin silver print; 8 x 10 inches (glass plate negative); 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Identifier : aql:11861 jfw-000315 jfw-000315.tif