New Orleans fireboat DELUGE

real photo postcard, white border

POSTCARDS
2014 Lang Collection
USA, LA, New Orleans
after 1923
paper
3-1/2 x 5-3/8 in.

Real photo postcard, white border; handwritten on back "EB 16904", and "DELUGE", and "New Orleans Fire Boat"; printed on back AZO stamp box (1824-1949), and "PORT OF NEW ORLEANS / . . . operates the fire tug 'Deluge' in the harbor, answering all distress calls. . . pumping capacity of 14,000 gallons of water per minute and a speed of 16-1/2 miles per hour."; printed on front at bottom "DELUGE"; New Orleans fireboat DELUGE.


2014.49.2794

Gift of Monika and Steven Lang, 2014



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