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Videodisk: Classic Fireboats in Action. Harbor Fires - New York & New Jersey 1900-1950. The Ahrens-Fox Video Library, 1996. Transfer to DVD from videotape 2011.
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Classic Fireboats in Action. Harbor Fires - New York & New Jersey 1900-1950. The Ahrens-Fox Video Library, Webster Groves, MO. Copyright 1996.
DVD transfer from video tape 2011.001.0024. Black-and-white. Running time: 30:00.
FOR MUSEUM USE ONLY; NOT TO BE DUPLICATED.
A compilation of archival footage with titles, music and narration from several fires in the New York Harbor including three in Hoboken plus others in Jersey City and Weehawken. (It is entirely likely that the Hoboken Fire Department assisted at the fires depicted in Jersey City and Weehawken.)
The fireboats were built by the Ahrens-Fox Fire Engine Company are the featured equipment and described with some detail.
The Hoboken fires are:
Fire No. 1. Hoboken Ferry Terminal 1905; 6:30 to 7:40; Edison footage
Fire No. 2. Hoboken Pier 1927, S.S. Seneca; 9:30 to 11:20; aerial footage including Lipton Tea sign
Fire No. 3. Hoboken Pier 1944; 22:50 - 23:50; several views of Hoboken firemen at work including one of their Ahrens-Fox fire trucks (a pumper); footage of injured longshoremen with rescue and first aid; three deaths.
2011.001.0024.01
2011.001
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Museum Collections.
1900 - 1950
Date(s) Created: 1996 Date(s): 1900-1950
Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2011-03-31