Description: Original description reads: "Fireman's band of Dayton, Ohio, directed by K[?]. A. Rarre of Emergency Schools. This band would have disbanded without this direction." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F08_024_001
Subjects: Bands (Music); Musicians--Ohio; Fire fighters--Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Black-and-white photograph of the City of Columbus Fire Department with crew and horse-drawn equipment, posed in front of the Ohio Statehouse, 1865. Listed by name are the Department Chief, workers at the North, South and Central Engine Houses, and Extra Hosemen. The men listed include: I.H. Marrow (Chief); North: William McGuire (Foreman), Henry S. Layton, Samuel Reed and John Piffer; Central: Mark Newman (Foreman), James F. Fleming, William W. Ferguson and John Roder; South: Thomas Winstanly (Foreman), H. Thomas, Christian Felker and Louis Becker; Extra Hosemen: John Poland and John White. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS_4014
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--19th century; Fire engines & equipment; Fire fighters; Ohio Statehouse (Columbus, Ohio)--Pictorial works;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Hand-colored photograph showing six firemen in Circleville, Ohio, ca. 1850-1859. The men seated in front are holding firefighting trumpets, which were used to "call out" or announce the fire to assemble the call men, who were local citizens who assisted regular firefighters in putting out fires. They received a small payment for each fire they attended. In 1853, the city of Cincinnati became the first to employ a professional fire department, made up of 100% full-time, paid employees. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04118
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Fire fighters; Fire engines & equipment; Fire prevention
Places: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image of an early fire engine and firefighters in Cincinnati, Ohio, is from the "Illustrated London News." Observers in a tower note smoke in the distance and ring a bell to sound the alarm. The man in the back uses a firefighting trumpet, used to "call out" or announce the fire to assemble the call men. The image illustrates the technological limitations of early fire departments, even in fairly large cities. Before the introduction of horse-drawn fire engines in the mid-19th century, and later fire trucks, following the invention of the automobile, most fire engines were maneuvered by men. In 1853, the city of Cincinnati became the first to employ a professional fire department, made up of 100% full-time, paid employees. "Illustrated London News" had a wide circulation in the 19th century, and collections of issues were often bound together and saved by families so that children could read them for years to come. This image comes from a detached page that was hand-colored. Such illustrations are valuable, and were sometime separated from intact issues to be sold by antique dealers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS4552
Subjects: Fire engines & equipment; Fire fighters; Social services; Public safety; Cincinnati (Ohio)--History;
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration titled "A Fire in Cincinnati," which originally appeared in the October 30, 1858, issue of Harper's Weekly. It accompanied an article about the Fire Department of Cincinnati and its use of a steam-powered fire engine. In 1853, the city of Cincinnati became the first to employ a professional fire department, made up of 100% full-time, paid employees. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04119
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Fires; Harper's Weekly; Fire fighters; Fire engines & equipment
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)