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Front cover of an issue of the children's magazine that was edited by Isabella Alden and her husband from 1873 to 1896.

Caption: When there's a difficult job to be done, everyone calls the fire department! One of the local fire department's volunteer civic duties is replacing the rope on the post office's flag pole when it wears out. It happens about every three years…

Caption: MAYOR GREENE SIGNS PROCLAMATION ... A proclamation naming the week from October 3 to 9, Fire Prevention and Clean-up Week was signed earlier this week by the Mayor. Looking on are Raymond Holton, Chairman of the Committee for the project,…

Magazine snippet about the Park Avenue Association's Christmas festivities.

Caption: Modern fire protection has been provided the Killarney community with arrival yesterday of this new combination pumper and hose truck for the Killarney Volunteer Fire Dept. from the American LaFrance Foamite Corp. On hand to inspect the…

Review of "She Wanted To Read" that appeared in the Winter Park Sun-Herald, April 21, 1966.

Caption: This photograph was taken by H. H. Sykes in Winter Park on Thursday October 28, 1954. The five firemen are testing different water power of four different fire hose nozzles. The nozzles were measure by gallons released per minute. The…