Title

Irkutsk police fire brigade. Uniform: home uniform, fire-work uniform, dress uniform, 1894. Creator: R Prorokov.

Caption

Irkutsk police fire brigade. Uniform: home uniform, fire-work uniform, dress uniform, 1894. This collection of photographs and documents from the private archive of Sergei Mikhailovich Chashchin relates to the establishment of a firefighting service in eastern Siberia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It includes materials about early firefighting equipment, the organization of a Siberian firefighting team, and the leaders of Siberia's first firefighting service.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A03_029

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NA

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NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

48,4Mb (2,2Mb) / 16,5in x 11,4in / 4960 x 3411 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation exterior outdoors animal road building buildings job animals horses horse historical house houses country occupation color siberian photography location century horse drawn vintage Russia Russian profession firefighter emergency services fireman firemen fire brigade photograph fire engine concept photo B&W Siberia fire truck horse-drawn road Transport convoy Thoroughfare Colour fire service 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black 1890s nineteenth century Irkutsk history historic horse-drawn vehicle Rossiya TGN outside photograph portrait horsedrawn Heritage Art 19th-century still image Meeting of Frontiers Sergei Mikhailovich Chashchin Chashchin Sergei Mikhailovich R Prorokov Prorokov R