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Title
Old Number 1 Fire Engine, Lansing
Creator
James P. Edmonds

Institution
Capital Area District Library

Subject
Fire engines

Subject
Fire houses

Subject
Firefighters Michigan

Item Number
JQ01j005

Relation
NULL

Type
image

Format
tiff

Description
Photograph of Lansing Fire Department in September, 1895. Captain Hugo Delphs was fire chief at the time. The fire house was located in the ground floor of the City Hall building which stood at 112 East Allegan, later the site of the Capital Savings and Loan Association.

Old Number 1 Fire Engine, Lansing

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