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- Men of the Fire Brigade of Ayers Village and West Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1897 - This group of 12 Massachusetts firefighters proudly posed with their hand-drawn hose wagon and pumper in 1897. Effective firefighting depended on hoses to carry water from a source to a pumper, and from the pumper to the fire. The hose reels on larger carts might have held several hundred feet of leather, cotton, or rubber hoses.
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Men of the Fire Brigade of Ayers Village and West Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1897
This group of 12 Massachusetts firefighters proudly posed with their hand-drawn hose wagon and pumper in 1897. Effective firefighting depended on hoses to carry water from a source to a pumper, and from the pumper to the fire. The hose reels on larger carts might have held several hundred feet of leather, cotton, or rubber hoses.