Barbara Mortenson, fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, New Hampshire, with Great Dane “Brenda”
“She keeps her dog on a leash because of porcupines.”
“She says that without her dog she could not hold down her job.”
via Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
See last month’s post for the origins of my new collection. This month’s photos, from 1929, feature Chicago Deputy Fire Marshal Daniel J. Carmody with two excellent Boston terriers.
Via Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933, Chicago History Museum.
You see these boxes of hundreds of snapshots at antique malls and junk shops. While they’re often fascinating, I don’t like looking at them because the idea of someone selling or giving away family pictures makes me unspeakably sad. Then I happened across one at Uncommon Objects in Austin. We were rushing through on our way to dinner, so I wasn’t in shopping mode. Then I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I said if I could find it again the next day, I’d get it.
There you have it. I also bought some Kenyan safari-print fabric and a few greeting cards.
We suffer through a lot of pointless fire alarms at my workplace. It’s a combination of our perpetual state of construction and, I think, people nipping into the stairwells for a smoke. The fire station is a block north of us, so the firefighters are usually in and out within fifteen minutes.
One time they brought the fire dog! It was a black and white pit bull. It sat in the front of the fire truck with its head sticking out the window while the firefighters went in. I loved that it was not a Dalmatian, but still had the same color scheme. I’m starting this collection in honor of non-Dalmatian, I mean non-traditional,* fire dogs.
The first two photos in this collection have a secondary theme, which is “fire dogs wearing hats and smoking pipes”
via PitBulls on the Web:
via American Museum of Photography:
I have a few others to share, but let me know if you find more!
*Look, nothing personal if you love Dalmatians, but I don’t care for them. Plus they shouldn’t get all the credit for fighting fires.
Horvat and Lartigue via Leslie Hindman Auctioneers.
All via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection:
“Ladies’ Kennel Association of America’s Sixth Annual Show.— Held at Mineola, N. Y., June 4, 5, 1908.—Dogs, 582; absent, 113— Championship Points—3. Judges:—Midgley Marsden, England— Bloohouncis, Mastiffs, St. Bernards. Newfoundlands, Irish Wolfhounds, Russian Wolfhounds, Deerhounds, Greyhounds, Esquimaux Dogs, English Foxhounds, Setters, Retrievers, Basset Hounds, Dachshunde, Whippets, Collies, Old English Sheepdogs, Dalmatians, Chow Chows, Samoyedes, Schlpperkes, all Toy Breeds (except Pomeranians), and Miscellaneous Class. C. Houlker, England—Poodles, Bulldogs, Airedale Terriers, Bull Terriers, French Bulldogs, Fox Terriers, Irish Terriers, Scottish Terriers, Roseneath Terriers, Welsh Terriers, Black and Tan (Manchester) Terriers, Skye Terriers, Bedlington Terriers, Dandle Dinmont Terriers and Pomeranians. Rudolph Vohl, Hewlitt, N. Y.—Great Danes. Dr. Henry Jarrett, Philadelphia, Pa.—American Foxhounds, Chesapeake Bay Dogs and Sporting Spaniels.” — First Annual Directory of Breeders and Exhibitors of Dogs in the United States and Canada, C.S.R. Co., 1908 via Google Book Search.