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[Report on an Incident at the Foreign National Camp in Ziegenberg, Germany] (open access)

[Report on an Incident at the Foreign National Camp in Ziegenberg, Germany]

Report concerning an incident that took place at the Foreign National Camp in Ziegenberg, Germany. The title of the report and the rest of the text is typed in French.
Date: [1944..1945]
Creator: Cousin, A.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Fire Station 8's Assistant Chief's Fire Engine]

Photograph of 4 uniformed firefighters standing in front of the Assistant Chief's fire engine. From left to right, the firefighters are: Clay, Watson, Cody, and Chief Meador. The fire engine is parked in the driveway of Dallas Fire Station 8, a brick building which is just barely visible on the left of the photograph. There are several trees beyond the fire engine, and beyond those, a residential neighborhood is visible. There are two small holes in the top of the photograph, one on the left and one on the right, as well as a yellow sticky note on the back, giving information about the photo.
Date: 1937
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of a French Fireman with a Gas Mask]

Postcard of a French fireman, wearing a gas mask and holding a hose and light. The back of the postcard has a handwritten message from the sender, discussing the trade of collectible postcards.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of a French Fireman with a Hose]

Postcard of a French fireman with a fire hose, spraying a stream of water to the left. A vehicle with a large wheel (roughly the height of the fireman) is sitting to the right, behind the fireman.
Date: 1909
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of Fire Fighters in Saint-Ouen]

Postcard of fire fighters extinguishing a large fire in an urban setting. The silhouettes of buildings are visible behind the wall of smoke, as well as a toppled street sign and telephone pole. In the bottom-right corner of the image, behind the fire fighters, a pickaxe is seen in a mound of loose dirt. A handwritten message on the back of the photograph says, "Many thanks for your cards. They are pretty, but not quite what I...]"
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of Fire Fighters with Carriages, Paris, France]

Postcard of fire fighters in horse-drawn fire engines, lined up in a city street. A man in an officer's uniform is standing by the front vehicle. The back of the postcard has a handwritten message from the recipient that says, "Many thanks for your very interesting card, and to have written to the secretary. I beg your pardon to be so late to answer you, but I had too much to do. I did not know that I was so much under the number of cards that I had to send you another one. Today I send you only one card, because I have no more here of that kind, but tomorrow I shall buy more fire cards and send them to you."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of French Fire Department]

Postcard of French firemen with a pump arm (stated on the postcard as "pompe a bras") fire engine. One of the firemen on the left is holding a pump attached to the water tank.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of French Fire Fighters]

Postcard of fire fighters operating a pump, with hoses running from the metal cylinder in the center of the image. The back of the postcard has a handwritten message to the recipient that says, "Dear Sir, many thanks for your pretty post cards. I am sending you two of the Paris F. Brigade. But I could not have colored ones. I shall try to get your [...]"
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of Moscow's Fire Department]

Postcard of uniformed fire fighters standing on a horse-drawn fire engine. The vehicle is equipped with a metal tank on its back. There is a caption below the image written in Cyrillic script.
Date: 1918?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History