Firefighters

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Bunking Fire Laddies and the Bowery Theatre Fire [published Apr. 22, 1883]

jpkntz March 31, 2024

Passin’ by an engine house the other day...

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The Rig of a Volunteer Fireman [published May 10, 1885]

jpkntz January 9, 2024

Passin’ along Grand street recently I walked by...

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The Deadly Theatre Fires of New York [published Mar. 27, 1881]

jpkntz October 3, 2023

The terrible catastrophe at the Opera House in...

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John Brown’s Body…In New York! [published Dec. 18, 1881]

jpkntz September 5, 2023

About this time twenty-two years ago the city...

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Fun and Excitement Among the East Side Shipwrights [published July 23, 1882]

jpkntz August 30, 2023

[CAUTION: THE FOLLOWING NEWSPAPER COLUMN, WRITTEN IN 1882, CONTAINS...

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An Old Fireman’s Devotion to His Engine [published Feb. 15, 1885]

jpkntz August 4, 2023

What is left of the old Volunteer Fire...

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Mechanics’ Hose Co. No. 47 of the Shipyards [published Nov. 6, 1881]

jpkntz July 26, 2023

My old friend, John Quigg, once foreman of...

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The Early Days of “Black Joke” Engine 33 [published Feb. 8, 1885]

jpkntz July 15, 2023

Old Black Joke Engine Company 33 has come...