Knoxville Fire Department

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Knoxville Fire Department equipment (1909 American Automatic Serial #1 with American LaFrance type 31 6 cyl. tractor). Retired in 1950s to Chilhowee Park, Knoxville, Tenn., and later cut up for scrap. 8 x 12” color.

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Includes one framed pen-and-ink drawing of Commerce Street Knoxville Fire Department Headquarters, one clock, three metal toy fire engines, two small Georgia marble fire engines.

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Fire truck, firefighters, horse-drawn vehicles. Supposed to be Knoxville, Tenn. (Knoxville Fire Department?). On thin cardboard backing. Tear, stains.

Scope and Contents Photographs and artifacts of various aspects of the Knoxville Fire Department from 1861-1984. 528 photographs in 478 mountings housed in 56 obliques files. Photographs are arranged under the subject headings: buildings; equipment; events; fires; group portraits; individual portraits; training scenes, and miscellaneous. Artifacts arranged in eight boxes (see finding aid for details). The following oversized artifacts are stored separately: 1 wooden ladder; 2 framed pieces of newspaper...

Scope and Contents Folder 1: Photographs, Gay Street Fire. 7 pcs. Folder 2: Photographs, portraits. 1900. 7 pcs. (Albert S. Birdsong; William Epps; Marshall C. Hall; Sam Harbison; Sanford W. Littleton; John Mournane; John P. Murphy. Folder 3: Knoxville Fire Department record book, ca. 1900-1906. 1 vol. [Capt. Sam B. Boyd] Folder 4: Knoxville Fire Department record book, 1905-1915. 1 vol. Folder 5: Knoxville Fire Department record book, 1915-1928. 1 vol. + (1924) Annual Report. Folder 6: Knoxville Fire...

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January 22, 1893 Knoxville Fire Department payroll. Lists name, rank, pay.

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Knoxville Fire Department photographs. 5 pcs. (one color snapshot, March 1973).

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Knoxville Fire Department includes photographs, clippings, injuries, service dates, personnel, annual reports and yearbooks. This box of material also includes a few folders of Knoxville Police Department materials--photographs and the 1939 annual report.

Scope and Contents Plaque with the words “M.E. Thompson. Knoxville’s Centennial Mayor, 1892.” (silver, shield-shaped), mounted on wooden backing. Small brass plaque at bottom says: “Name plate from the Fire Engine M.E. Thompson, Knoxville Fire Department, 1892. Donated on behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Ferris (Frank) A. Dawson, grandson of Knoxville Mayor M.E. Thompson.” Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Coile via Jack Lewis. + Knoxville News-Sentinel article, November 28, 1926, re: Knoxville Fire Department and the fire...

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T.W. Johnson, Engineer, Knoxville Fire Department, in uniform. April 1900. Steamer, M.L. Rossm Co, in Fire Department. Taken by McCrary & Branson, Knoxville, Tenn. 1 pc. 4 x 5.5” photograph on mount. Sepia.