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[Postcard of a Webb Fire Engine Test]

Description: Postcard of a fire engine spraying water at a building with two large smokestacks. The photograph was captured from a distance above, and many people can be seen observing the scene below. A printed note on the back of the postcard says, "Test of the "Webb" Motor Fire Engine, Through Deck Turret on "Webb" Motor High Pressure Wagon. Height of Stack 246 ft. Size of Nozzle 1 5/8 inches. It was estimated that at times this stream reached nearly 300 feet perpendicularly."
Date: February 9, 1912
Creator: Inbody, J.
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Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Postcard with a Photograph of the Fort Wayne Fire Department Performing Engine Tests]

Description: Postcard with a photograph of members of the Fort Wayne Fire Department spraying water on a large building in the city. According to the photo, this was a part of some engine tests that they were performing at the time; one set of firemen is standing in the street on the right and another set is standing on the corner in the foreground.
Date: [1909..1912]
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Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Postcard of the Indiana Harbor Fire Station]

Description: Postcard with a photograph of fire station number 1 in Indiana Harbor, Indiana; judging by the sign on the front of the building, it was built in 1908. There are six firefighters standing outside of the station, two of them are sitting on a carriage with ladders in it.
Date: [1909..1912]
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Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

Export and manufacturing tobacco districts of the United States (western section) to accompany bulletin prepared by E.H. Mathewson.

Description: Map shows types of tobacco production for southern Kentucky, Tennessee, southern Indiana and Ohio, and western West Virginia; railroads, counties, cities, and towns. Includes legend and annual production statistics. Scale [ca. 1:895,000].
Date: 1912
Creator: Stevenson, J. H.
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Postcard from W. B. Johnston to George Pendexter, July 16, 1912]

Description: Postcard from W. B. Johnston to George Pendexter telling him of a recent fire they had "the 11th and one Sunday morning at 3 a.m." The photograph shows a devastated building with a caption that reads: "Great Fendrich Fire Ruins Main St. Looking West from 2nd St. Evansville, Indiana." The building in the center is almost completely destroyed while the one to its left has most of its walls still standing though its roof is gone.
Date: July 16, 1912
Creator: Johnston, W. B.
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Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Postcard from F. A. Bruce to George Pendexter, February 5, 1912]

Description: Postcard from F. A. Bruce to George Pendexter with a photograph of a large building on fire in Fort Wayne, Indiana; there is one fire truck in the photograph with hoses attached to it and other streams of water shooting at the flaming building. The note on the back of the card reads: "Let me know what views you have of Battle Creek so I will know what to send this one is of Fort Wayne Ind. 11 people burned up."
Date: February 5, 1912
Creator: Bruce, F. A.
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Partner: Fire Museum of Texas
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