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Photographic print of fire fighters from Engine Company Number 26

ca. 1954

Herron Hill Reservoir, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black and white photograph of fire fighters from Engine Company Number 26. Several of the fire fighters are pictured holding a hose that is spraying water on the Herron Hill Reservoir in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Other fire fighters hold other equipment and stand around the men holding the hose. There is an inscription of a number in the bottom right corner that reads: [529]. The back of the photograph is blank.

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Catalog reference: 2014.302.77

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