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Title
Fire Engine: Steamer 'Rufus P. King' (1873)
Subject
Fires -- Banks -- Streets -- People
Description
Steamer 'Rufus P. King' acquired by the borough of Warren in 1873 or 1874, and given to the scrap drive in WWII, shown in operation on the Liberty Street bridge during the Warren Savings Bank / Watson-Davis block fire of February 1889. View to the north to Warren (later New Struthers) Hotel, built by Thomas Struthers, 1880.
Time Period Covered
19th and 20th Century photography and text.
Original Format
Photographs
Source
Warren Library Association Photograph Collection
Relation
Allegheny Chronicles-Rafting and Lumbering
Contact
For information on source and images, contact the Warren Library Association, Reference Department, 205 Market St., Warren, PA 16365. Phone (814) 723-4650, Reference menu option, or email reference@warrenlibrary.org .
Contributing Institution
Warren Library Association
Sponsorship
This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.
