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| Title | Ford Mesquito Fleet of the Davenport Fire Department No. 3 |
| Date Original | ca. 1915 |
| Description | Photograph of two fire engines in front of Fire Station No. 3. One man seated in each engine and three men in uniforms standing. Garage area in first floor of station in background. Men are left to right: Frank Richardson, Don Shire, Policeman William Graham, Charles Westfall and Ed Murray. |
| Location Depicted | Davenport, Scott County, Iowa |
| Subject | Fire engines & equipment
Fire fighters
Fire Stations
Police
Group portraits
Men
Richardson, Frank
Shire, Don
Graham, William
Westfall, Charles
Murray, Ed
Davenport (Iowa). Fire Department
Davenport (Iowa)
Photographic prints
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| Notes | Identification of men from back of photograph. Photograph also indicates that these vehicles were put into service in 1915. |
| Ordering Information | Contact Chief Curator at (563) 324-1054 ext. 223 or email schlichting@putnam.org. |
| Image Number | oscab1d1.36 |
| Repository | Putnam Museum of History and Natural Science, 1717 West 12th Street, Davenport, Iowa 52804 |
| Object Description | 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Digital image capturee using MIcrotek ScanMaker 9600XL with transparent media adapter. TIFF file created from a photographic print scanned at 8-bit grayscale 600ppi. The master scan is untouched, but this display image was enhanced by adjusting the input level of the shadows from 0 to 33; the highlights from 255 to 245; brightness adjusted to +14, contrast to -10; the image was rotated counterclockwise 0.5 degrees and cropped using Adobe PhotoShop 7.0. |
| Date Digital | 2004-02-10 |
| File Name | putoscab1d1_36 |
| Original Database | This record is from the Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive, http://www.umvphotoarchive.org, a collaborative project of cultural heritage organizations in the Iowa-Illinois Mississippi River region. |
