[A Horse-Drawn Fire Wagon] Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title [A Horse-Drawn Fire Wagon]

Date

  • Creation: 1912?
  • Digitized: 2008-05-30

Language

  • No Language

Description

  • Content Description: Photograph of a horse-drawn fire wagon, pulled by two white horses and driven by a man.
  • Physical Description: 1 photograph: b&w

Subject

  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Business, Economics and Finance - Transportation - Horse-Drawn Vehicles
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Government and Law - Civil Servants - Firefighters
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Agriculture - Domestic Animals - Horses
  • Named Animal: Joe
  • Named Animal: Frank
  • Named Person: Cogdell

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Palo Pinto County - Mineral Wells
  • Time Period: mod-tim
  • Coverage Date: 1912?

Source

  • Book: TIME WAS in Mineral Wells... (2nd ed.), A. F. Weaver, p. 189

Collection

  • Name: A. F. Weaver Collection
    Code: AFWC

Institution

  • Name: Boyce Ditto Public Library
    Code: BDPL

Rights

  • Rights Access: public

Resource Type

  • Photograph

Format

  • Image

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: AWO_1820P
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth38080

Note

  • Display Note: This picture is included on page 189 of the Second Edition of "TIME WAS in Mineral Wells...", by A. F. Weaver. The city's first fire station was located at 202 N. Oak Avenue, but the horses had difficulty responding to emergency calls from this fire station because the fire wagon's wheels tended to get trapped in the street car tracks that ran down the center of Oak Avenue, which was not paved at that time. This fire was in the central business district (note the roofs of two multistory buildings, visible at the upper left edge of the picture.) Fire hoses laid along the street are being used by two men in the left middle background to furnish water to fight the fire. The location of this particular fire is not specified, but is probably the Delaware Hotel (formerly the St. Nicholas.) Mineral Wells has experienced several disastrous fires in the past; one in 1914, two blocks west of the Delaware' location, destroyed six city blocks.
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