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- Postcard, "Chief's Auto, Waterbury Fire Dept.," 1912 - Fire departments, eager to eliminate the costs and complications of horses, were quick to adopt motor vehicles. In addition to motorized pumpers and trucks, many departments purchased automobiles for use by fire chiefs. With a car, a fire chief and staff could travel swiftly to the scene of a fire.
- February 28, 1912
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Postcard, "Chief's Auto, Waterbury Fire Dept.," 1912
Fire departments, eager to eliminate the costs and complications of horses, were quick to adopt motor vehicles. In addition to motorized pumpers and trucks, many departments purchased automobiles for use by fire chiefs. With a car, a fire chief and staff could travel swiftly to the scene of a fire.
- Mack Model AB Stake Truck, "Worden's Dairy," circa 1914 - Founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 1900, Mack Brothers Company relocated to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1905 and became Mack Trucks in 1922. Trucks replaced railroads in the early 20th century for moving raw milk to processing plants. Flatbed trucks hauled milk in traditional cans, but tank trucks proved even more efficient for loading and unloading fluid milk.
- circa 1914
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Mack Model AB Stake Truck, "Worden's Dairy," circa 1914
Founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 1900, Mack Brothers Company relocated to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1905 and became Mack Trucks in 1922. Trucks replaced railroads in the early 20th century for moving raw milk to processing plants. Flatbed trucks hauled milk in traditional cans, but tank trucks proved even more efficient for loading and unloading fluid milk.
- Metal Planer, circa 1860 -
- circa 1860
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Metal Planer, circa 1860
- Wadhams Post 49 Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Department of Connecticut Badge, circa 1890 - Members of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Civil War Union veterans' organization formed in 1866, established local posts throughout the country in the late 19th century. Most posts adopted names which honored a fallen comrade from the community. The post in Waterbury, Connecticut, chose Wadhams, the family name of three brothers who died in Virginia in 1864.
- 1890
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Wadhams Post 49 Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Department of Connecticut Badge, circa 1890
Members of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Civil War Union veterans' organization formed in 1866, established local posts throughout the country in the late 19th century. Most posts adopted names which honored a fallen comrade from the community. The post in Waterbury, Connecticut, chose Wadhams, the family name of three brothers who died in Virginia in 1864.