[Dallas Firefighter Class 165 #2]

Portrait of the Dallas Fire classmembers from January 16, 1974 to April 12, 1974 posing outside a building in two rows. The recruits are wearing uniforms of navy blue slacks, double-breasted jackets, and flat-topped caps.
Date: [1974-01-16..1974-04-12]
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Fire Department.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dallas Firefighter Class 170 #2]

Portrait of the Dallas Fire classmembers from October 20, 1975 to January 22, 1976 posing outside a building in two rows. The recruits are wearing uniforms of navy blue slacks, double-breasted jackets, and flat-topped caps.
Date: January 1, 1976
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Fire Department.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dallas Firefighter Class 183 #2]

Portrait of the Dallas Fire classmembers from September 25, 1978 to January 25, 1979 posing outside a building in two rows. The recruits are all wearing dark blue uniforms that include slacks, a jacket with two rows of silver buttons and a Dallas Fire patch on the left sleeve, a silver shield over the left breast, and a name tag near the right lapel. They are all holding flat-topped caps in front of them with their right hands.
Date: January 5, 1979
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Fire Department.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dallas Firefighter Class 208 #2]

Portrait of the Dallas Fire classmembers from August 27, 1984 to January 25, 1985 posing outside a building in three rows. The recruits are wearing light blue shirts with patches on the left sleeve and navy blue slacks.
Date: 1985-01-04~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Memo: Dallas Fire Department Recruit Class 216] (open access)

[Memo: Dallas Fire Department Recruit Class 216]

Memorandum listing the roster of recruits for the Dallas Fire Department in training from January 13, 1986 to June 10, 1986.
Date: January 6, 1986
Creator: Bailey, W. N.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Six People With an Incubator]

Photograph of six people, five men and one woman, standing around an incubator that had been donated to the Children's Medical Center. They are standing in front of a Dallas Fire Department ambulance outside of the Children's Medical Center. The back of the photograph has a label reading, "1975 Incubator Donation, Received by Chief J. O. Camp and Fire Chief Hendrix. Chief Camp Donated Picture" and "Children's Medical Center" is written below the label.
Date: January 16, 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dallas Firefighter Class 113 #1]

Portrait of the Dallas Fire classmembers from August 1, 1961 to January 31, 1962 posing outside a building in two rows. The recruits are wearing double-breasted jackets with badges on the left breast and slacks.
Date: January 31, 1962
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Fire Department.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dallas Firefighter Class 119 #1]

Portrait of the 6 Dallas Fire class members from August 1963 to January 1964 posing in front of a building in two rows. All of the recruits are wearing a dark colored suit with circular silver buttons in two rows, dark colored slacks, and a silver badge on the left side of the chest.
Date: January 31, 1964
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Fire Department.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dallas Firefighter Class 131 #1]

Portrait of the 17 Dallas Fire class members from October 1966 to January 1967 posing in front of a building in two rows. All of the recruits are wearing a dark colored suit with circular silver buttons in two rows, dark colored slacks and service cap, name tag on the right side of their chest, and a silver badge on the left side of the chest.
Date: January 31, 1967
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Fire Department.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Firefighter Coiling a Fire Hose]

Photograph of a firefighter (wearing a firefighting suit with the letters 'J' and 'L' on the right sleeve) bent over and recoiling a fire hose next to a large pile of wooden debris and a bright lamp. There are two ladders propped up against the side of the tall, multi-story building on the right. There is a fire-escape attached to the side of the building. In the background, another tall, multi-story building with many illuminated windows is barely visible in the dark. On the back of the photograph are two stamps and a handwritten note giving information about the photo.
Date: January 24, 1964
Creator: Young, John
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Chef Observes Damage to Burnt Cabinets]

Photograph of a man in a chef's toque and uniform kneeling down beside a burnt and charred counter. His right hand rests on a pile of ash on top of the counter, and he's looking at a smoky wine glass on the counter. The cabinet doors under the counter and falling apart and falling off the the hinges. The floor beneath the man's feet is covered in ashes. On the back of the photograph are two stamps giving the photographer's name, the name of the printer, and the date.
Date: January 24, 1964
Creator: Grant, Clint
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Firefighter's Ladder Extending Towards Smoking Building on Pacific and Griffin]

Wide-shot photograph of a smoking, multi-story, brick building on the corner of Pacific and Griffin. A fire engine ladder extends up towards the building from a fire engine just out of shot on the left, and smaller ladders are propped up against the building from the ground. Hoses lay on the ground in the street in front of the building, all leading towards the firefighters. Beyond the smoking building, in the background on the left, another building is partially visible. On the back of the photograph is a handwritten note identifying the printer and the date.
Date: January 29, 1961
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Civilian receives lifesaving award]

Photograph of a male civilian standing with seven members of the Dallas Fire Department's Station 11, including the fire chief. The civilian, who has dark, curly hair and mustache, is to the right of the fire chief. The chief is wearing a formal uniform and holding a certificate. The firefighters surround them on either side and behind them. On the side of the ambulance behind the group of men is text reading, "Dallas Fire Department." There is a label on the back of the photograph with information about the photo.
Date: January 1992
Creator: Garcia, Carolyn S.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Small Bus Inside Garage]

Photograph of a small bus - with no doors and several missing windows - parked in large, dimly lit garage. There are three tables with various spray cans and other tools in front of the bus, and a stack of upholstered seats to the right of the bus. There are tall lockers along the back wall, and long light fixtures hanging from the ceiling. In the background of the garage are large, shadowed metal structures.There is a stamp on the back of the photograph with the date the photo was taken.
Date: January 28, 1974
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Firefighters Climb Ladders into Second Story of Burnt Building]

Photograph of firefighters in firefighting suits climbing up and standing below two ladders leading up to two large holes in the second story of a building damaged by fire. Other firefighters and a man with a camera and a tape recorder stand in the space beneath the second-story. There are fire hoses on the ground and draped over the edge of the second-story floor. A large pile of fire-damaged wooden furniture lays on the left. On the back of the photograph are two stamps and a handwritten note giving information about the photo.
Date: January 24, 1964
Creator: Young, John
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Street Outside Dallas Federal Savings & Loan Fire]

Downward view photograph of five fire engines, an ambulance, and a police car in the street to the right of the Dallas Federal Savings & Loan building (which is barely visible on the left). There are men in white hard-hats (and some wearing suits) standing on the sidewalk and street between the building and the emergency vehicles. The buildings and crowd of civilians watching the scene from down the street in the background are partially obscured by smoke. On the back of the photograph are two stamps giving information about the photographer and printer, as well as extensive handwritten notes about the fire.
Date: January 7, 1964
Creator: Winfrey, Bill
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Civilian receives lifesaving award]

Photograph of a male civilian standing with eight members of the Dallas Fire Department's Station 11, including the fire chief. The civilian, who has dark, curly hair and mustache, is shaking hands with the chief. The chief (who is to the left of the civilian), wearing a formal uniform, is handing a certificate to the civilian. The firefighters surround them on either side and behind them. On the side of the ambulance behind the group of men is text reading, "Dallas Fire Department." There is a label on the back of the photograph with information about the photo.
Date: January 1992
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Firefighters Climb Ladder Onto Roof of Smoking Building]

Photograph of a firefighter climbing up a ladder onto the roof of a smoking building, where three other firefighters are waiting. Three fire hoses are draped over the side of the building and back down to one of the fire engines parked in the street. The other fire engine is only partially visible on the right. Smoke obscures the sky above the building. On the back of the photograph are two labels and a stamp with information about the photo.
Date: January 30, 1962
Creator: Allen, Willie
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Firefighters Climb Into Fire-Damaged Medical Arts Building]

Photograph of firefighters inside the second-story of the fire-damaged, gaping side of the Medical Arts Building. A firefighter on the ground holds one of two tall ladders propped up against the exposed second-story floor. Two large, burnt piles of rubble sit on either side of the ladders, and there are several firefighting hoses lying coiled in the foreground. A man wearing a white coat and white hard-hat stands behind the ladder on the left, just inside the building. On the back of the photograph are extensive notes about the fire that damaged the building, a portion of a torn-off label, and a stamp identifying the photographer.
Date: January 24, 1964
Creator: Hanson, Andy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Smoke Pours From Dallas Federal Savings & Loan Building]

Photograph of a large cloud of dark smoke pouring out from the Dallas Federal Savings & Loan building, visible on the right. In the street in front of the building, to the left, are four small fire engines and a group of fighters in firefighting uniform. There is a man taking a photograph of the smoke in the center middle-ground of the photo. A large white, square clock jutting out from the side of the Savings & Loan building shows the time to be about 3:10 pm. On the back of the photograph are the remnants of a torn-off identifier label, a stamp identifying the photographer, and handwritten notes.
Date: January 7, 1964
Creator: Eamon, Kennedy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Yellow Fire Engine In the City]

Photograph of a side-view of a yellow, Dallas Fire Department Station 18 fire engine. The truck is parked in front of a long, brown brick, one-story building. In the background, there are two white towers, one of which extends out of shot. A street is visible in front of the small, narrow parking lot where the engine is parked. There are two stamps on the back of the photograph with identifier information, the date, and information about the photo's printer that has been smudged beyond readability.
Date: January 14, 1976
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Firefighters Hosing Down Burning Tires]

Wide-shot photograph of four firefighters in firefighting suits, hosing down burning tires on the left. Two of the firefighters hold one hose while the other two hold another hose, pointed at a spot farther away. A large tree stands just beyond the farthest firefighters, and there are more trees barely visible in the background. There are a few stacks of tires obscuring the closest firefighters and much of the background on the left is obscured by smoke. On the back of the photograph are a label and two stamps giving information about the photo, including the photographer and date.
Date: January 20, 1960
Creator: Flynn, Johnny
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Presentation of Transportable Incubator]

Photograph of five people standing around a portable incubator, alongside a brick building. From left to right they are: a man wearing a fire chief's uniform, holding a file; an older man in a medium-colored suit, also holding a file; a man in a light-colored suit, in the middle of speaking; a man in a plaid suit, standing on the edge of a small ambulance dock; and a woman with short hair, a skirt suit, and a scarf around her neck, also standing on the ambulance dock. The portable incubator is made out of plastic and is supported by a metal structure. Behind the group is a Dallas Fire Department ambulance, the back of which rests just above the dock ledge with the back door open. On the back of the photograph are stamps with information about the photo, handwritten notes, and dimensions for cropping.
Date: January 16, 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Officers and Injured Man on Gurney in a Street]

Photograph of a street crowded with three police cars, a fire engine with a ladder on top, three police officers, and other people (in the street and on the side of the far side of the street, watching). A man with a bandage covering one of his eyes is laying on a gurney being pulled and pushed by a man in a suit and a firefighter. The ladder on top of the fire engine has "Dallas Fire Department, Snorkel No. 2" on the side. There are two partially visible multi-story buildings and a neon pharmacy sign in the immediate background. On the back of the photograph are two stamps and a handwritten note giving information about the photo.
Date: January 24, 1964
Creator: Grant, Clint
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History