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Photo, Print, Drawing Dobrovol'nai︠a︡ pozharnai︠a︡ druzhina na Teatral'noĭ ploshchadi. Добровольная пожарная дружина на Театральной площади.

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Title

  • Dobrovol'nai︠a︡ pozharnai︠a︡ druzhina na Teatral'noĭ ploshchadi.

Other Title

  • Добровольная пожарная дружина на Театральной площади.

Translated Title

  • Volunteer Fire Detachment on Teatral'naia Square.

Summary

  • 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. World Digital Library.

Created / Published

  • Irkutsk, Russia : [publisher not identified], nachalo XX v.

Headings

  • -  firefighters
  • -  equipment carts
  • -  architecture
  • -  transportation
  • -  barrels
  • -  Russian Federation
  • -  Irktusk Oblast

Notes

  • -  Original image at: Private Archive of Sergei Nikolaevich Chashchin

Medium

  • 1 photograph : 6.0 x 10.8 cm ; photo paper, black & white photo print.

Source Collection

  • Firefighting in Irkutsk Province

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018684505

Online Format

  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Dobrovol'nai︠a︡ pozharnai︠a︡ druzhina na Teatral'noĭ ploshchadi. Irktusk Oblast Russian Federation, 1900. [Irkutsk, Russia: publisher not identified, nachalo XX v] Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2018684505/.

APA citation style:

(1900) Dobrovol'nai︠a︡ pozharnai︠a︡ druzhina na Teatral'noĭ ploshchadi. Irktusk Oblast Russian Federation, 1900. [Irkutsk, Russia: publisher not identified, nachalo XX v] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2018684505/.

MLA citation style:

Dobrovol'nai︠a︡ pozharnai︠a︡ druzhina na Teatral'noĭ ploshchadi. [Irkutsk, Russia: publisher not identified, nachalo XX v] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2018684505/>.