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Fire Station No. 30, and its resident Engine Company No. 30, was segregated in 1924. It remained segregated until 1956, when the Los Angeles Fire Department was integrated. According to the registration form supporting the station's listing on the National Register, "All-black fire stations were simultaneous representations of racial ...
Engine House No. 7 is one of the original Fire Station Houses established by the District of Columbia Fire Department in the late 19th century. Built in 1884, Engine House No. 7 was home to Engine Co. No. 7 before the segregation of the Department in 1940 when it then housed the historic first all-black fire squad, Engine Co. No. 4.
The photographical reproduction of this work is covered under the article § 59 of the German copyright law, which states that "It shall be permissible to reproduce, by painting, drawing, photography or cinematography, works which are permanently located on public ways, streets or places and to distribute and publicly communicate such copies ...
Firehouse, Engine Company 31 is a historic fire station located at 87 Lafayette Street between Walker and White Streets in the Tribeca and Civic Center neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was built in 1895 and designed by architects Napoleon LeBrun & Sons, who styled it after early-16th-century chateaux in the Loire Valley of France ...
Fire Station No. 30. The residents of the Central-Alameda neighborhood of South Los Angeles were initially mostly white. By 1930, the neighborhood had changed to predominantly black. By 1950, it was home to two all-black, segregated fire stations (Fire Station No. 14 and Fire Station No. 30). The Fire Chief Engineer of Los Angeles, John ...
Engine Company 21 in 1873. Engine Company 21, organized in 1872, was the first all-black fire company in the Chicago Fire Department.The fire pole was invented by members of the company in 1888, and after inventing it, Engine 21 had the fastest response time in the city.
The "passivity" agreement FDIC wants BlackRock to sign is designed to assure bank regulators that the giant money manager will remain a "passive" owner of an FDIC-supervised bank and won’t exert ...
Fire Station Number 4 in Asheville, North Carolina, also known as Merrimon Avenue Fire Station, is a historic fire station. It was built in 1927, and is a two-story, flat roofed, multi-colored brick building in the Art Deco style. It features a five-story tower with an open-shaft staircase. [2]