Waterloo Fire Department
Description
- Creator
- Denton Panoramic Photographs, Kitchener, Ontario, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Group portrait of the Waterloo Fire Department members standing with their fire trucks in front of Waterloo town (later city) hall on Albert Street at Erb Street. Truck on the left is a 1925 Godfredson ladder truck. In the background to the left at 21-23 Erb Street west can be seen A. Schefter, Blacksmith, and Massey-Harris Company Limited, dealer of agricultural machinery, and a shoe repair shop. The fire hall can be seen in the background at right. Note the street lights.
Left to right; Chief Georges Karges; Wilf Rutsch; Oscar Eckensviller; Louis Kessig; Walter Waurechen; Wilfrid Simpson; George Illerbrun, Assistant Chief; Theo Lackenbauer; Milt Riepert; Oliver Karges; Chris Herter; Edgar Schmitt; John Simpson (at wheel); Albert Pagel (sitting); Herman Schaefer; Sam Miller; George Gerhardt; Fred Maahs; Herman Pagel. - Notes
- See Detail photographs for closer view.
Names provided by Howard Simpson, January 2001. - Date of Original
- June 1931
- Date Of Event
- Jume 1931
- Dimensions
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Width: 75 cm
Height: 16 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 75cm
Image Height: 16cm
- Subject(s)
- Fire engines & equipment
Street lights
Karges, George A
Lackenbauer, Theodore
Pagel, Albert
Simpson, John
Waterloo Fire Department (Waterloo, Ont.)
Eckensviller, Oscar
Illerbrun, George
Waterloo City Hall (Waterloo, Ont.)
Simpson, Wilfrid
Karges, Oliver H.
Pagel, Herman
Gerhardt, George
Kessig, Louis
Miller, Samuel
Waurechen, Walter
Maahs, Frederick
23 Erb Street West (Waterloo, Ont.)
Rutsch, Wilf
Massey-Harris Company Limited (Waterloo, Ont.)
City Hall (Waterloo, Ont.)
Schefter, Alfred H.
Riepert, Milton
Herter, Chris
Schmitt, Edgar
Schaefer, Herman - Local identifier
- K-20 Oversize
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.465441 Longitude: -80.523434
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- Copyright Statement
- Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:35 Albert Street, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 5E2
