Merryweather Steam Fire Engine on Brock Street North
Description
- Creator
- Unknown, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- A black and white photograph of the Merryweather steam fire engine and a crowd of people on Brock Street north of Dundas. In the background are a telegraph and ticket office and W.E. O'Brien's photograph gallery on the west side of Brock Street.
- Notes
- This photograph was likely taken at the time of the Gross and Grainger hardward store fire on Brock Street South in June 1901 by a visiting cyclist from Oshawa.
- Inscriptions
- Sign on store: "TELEGRAPH EXPRESS TICKET OFFICE" and sign on building to the far right: "W.E. O'BRIEN PHOTOGRAPH"
- Date of Original
- June 9, 1901
- Dimensions
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Width: 6 cm
Height: 4 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 6cm
Image Height: 4cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 01-000-043
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.88342 Longitude: -78.93287
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a copy negative dated 1979.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
Website:
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