Photograph of Beaumont Fire Department's firefighters in 1947. There are thirteen men in the photo with three seated on a bench and the rest standing in a row behind them. They are wearing dress uniforms except for one man standing in the center of the back row.

Photograph of six men at a work site. One man is holding a ladder and there is a scaffold or structure behind them. The back of the photo reads, "300' Tower March 1948; Left to Right: Jerry Scruggs, Earl Fillingame, J.D. Southwell, Bill Williams, Doug Fisher, Frenchie Gaspard."

Photograph of the personnel of the Beaumont Fire Department in 1940. The individual portraits of the firefighters are arranged in seven rows with the department and year, "Beaumont Fire Dep't. 1940," at the center. There are five larger portraits of the officers are arranged around the department name. The firefighters are identified on the attached sheet, listed by row from left to right.

Photograph of five men standing in front of a fire engine. The photo is labelled "Engine 7" and the names and titles of the men are listed on the back of the photo; "1. George Akley, Del. Eng. Man for Seagrave; 2. Chief Steven Douglas O'Conor; 3. Fred Stone (Mayor; 4. Hugh Petsovek - City Mgr.; 5. John Douglas Southwell - Dept. of Fire Alarm."

Photograph of a large group of men posing for a photo in a street or on a boardwalk. The men are wearing a variety of uniforms or suits. The last row of people in the photo appear to be standing on a wooden platform or ramp. There are two business signs visible, "Dairyland Ice Cream Rx Gross Rx" and "Southlan[d] Caf[e]." The back of the photo reads, "South Central Dist. Jan 1940 - Pearsall, Frank Williams."

Photograph of five rifles and six hand guns leaning or set on a car's rear bumper. The rifles are set on the ground, leaning on the bumper and the smaller guns are either propped on the bumper or the license plate, which is a Texas registration.

Photograph of the personnel of the Beaumont Fire Department in 1949. The men are posed in three rows and are generally wearing dress uniforms. There are a few men wearing lighter colored suits seated in the front row. "Drew" is handwritten in the bottom right corner of the image.

Photograph of seven men standing in front of brick building. There are three men crouching facing towards them on the right side of the image. The back of the photo is titled "Testing Engine 7" and lists their names and roles; "1. George Akley - Del. Eng. Man of Seagrave; 2. Frank Estes - Ass't Fire Chief; 3. Chief Steven [sic] Douglas O'Conor; 4. John E. Southwell - Supt. of Fire Alarm; 5. Chief Dave [P]achal - Port Arthur Tex.; 6. Hugh Petkovsek - City Mgr.; 7. Fred Stone (Mayor)."

Photograph of three men wearing firefighter's hats sitting on a brick ledge outside Fire Station No. 7. There is text printed on the photo reading "Capt. Ralph Shelton, Hart Berwick, F.E. "Foots" Pfleider, No. 7 Fire Station in 1945."

Photograph of seven men standing in front of brick building. There are three men crouching facing towards them on the right side of the image. The back of the photo is labeled "Engine 7" and lists their names and roles; "1. George Akley - Del. Eng. Man of Seagrave; 2. Frank Estes - Ass't Fire Chief; 3. Chief Steven Douglas O'Conor; 4. John D. Southwell - Supt. of Fire Alarm; 5. Chief Dave Pachal - Chief Port Arthur Tex.; 6. Hugh Petkovsek (City Mgr.); 7. Fred Stone (Mayor)."

Photograph of three men attaching cables or chains to a structure. The structure is a narrow and scaffold-like and there are trees in the background. The back of the photo reads, "1948, Johnny Southwell, Earl Fillingame, "Blackie" Corden."

Photograph of two men with several guns, some of which are propped up on the back bumper of a car with a Texas license plate. The men both have multiple small guns pushed through their belts and are holding a longer rifle.

Photograph of the remains of a charred two story business building after a fire. There are water hoses on the street in the foreground, and cars to the left.

Photograph of men at a Texas Fire Department Instructors Conference, sitting in front of a building with cars in the background. Several men in the front row are identified as E. W. Parker, Monk Owens, Oscar Goodrich, B. J. Korman, Burns Caldwell, Frank Gallaway, Benjamin Huron, R. Roy Simmons, and Bill Willis. Those in the second row are Frank McKinney, Johnnie O'Brien, August Oertli, Paul Andrews, an unknown man, John Ballew, unknown, G. I. Powell, and three more unidentified men. Those in the third row are Glen Warranstaff, G. C. Adams, Bill McMeans, R. D. Mace, John Woody, four unknown men, Jerome Schawb, Henry D. Smith, Henry Timmerman, Morbert Koonce, Otis Muenster, and Paul R. Williams. Those in the back row are A. L. "Gus" Cartwright, L. O. Bynam, Dick Rowland, Adolf Solmkey, A. L. Rathke, and W. J. Henderson. One of the men in the fifth row is D. C. Musick, and three of the men in the top row are H. R. Brayton, Bob Dodson, and Harvey Peyton.

Photograph of five men standing in front of a Seagrave pumper in front of a building in Beaumont, Texas. They are identified as George Akley, Steven Douglas O'Connor, Fred Stone, Hugh Petkovsek, and John D. Southwell.

Photograph of a group of firemen spraying water at a pile of lumber at the Southern Land and Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas.

Photograph of firemen spraying water at the Southern Land and Lumber Company fire in Beaumont, Texas. There is lumber on the ground, and more firefighters are visible in the background.

Photograph of firemen from the Orange Fire Department posing together in uniform. The men in the front row are Charlie Taylor, Clyde Stanfield, Buss Hubbard, Hal McFarlane, Allie Barron, Buster Pete, Lawrence Shreaux, J. D. Stanfield, Joe Stewart, Vertis Sands, Albert Ewing, Buck Thompson, J. S. Rougeau, Roy Robinson, Pat Scarborough, and Henry Stanfield. Those in the second row are Lawrence Smaihall, Doug Robinson, Clifford Mathews, Bob York, Marshall Herrin holding a dog named Puggy, Cleveland Basco, Floyd Bishop, Bill Puckett, Johnny Jones, Dennis Smith and Jules Sanders.

Photograph of five firemen sitting at a table and eating spaghetti at a fire station in Beaumont, Texas.

Photograph of a building on fire in the distance at the Burris Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas. There are concrete cylinders in the foreground.

Photograph of men standing on train tracks in front of a burning building at the Southern Land and Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas.

Photograph of men standing in debris spraying water at the Burris Lumber Company fire.

Photograph of firefighters spraying water at large piles of lumber on fire at the Southern Land and Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas. A building is visible to the right.

Photograph of a building on fire at the Southern Land and Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas.