Dayton Fire Department hook and ladder truck during the exhibition fire run at the 1909 Wright Brothers Homecoming Celebration
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A Dayton Fire Department hook and ladder truck is being pulled by two horses as it races north on Main Street in the exhibition fire run during the 1909 Wright Brothers Homecoming Celebration. Four firefighters, with number thirteen on their helmets, are riding on the truck wearing turnout gear. Company thirteen was located at 1500 West Third Street near Euclid Street. The truck has a second driver at the rear steering wheel. The exhibition fire run took place on Main Street starting at Sixth Street and ending at the Soldier's Monument and passed through the entire Court of Honor. Soldiers from the Second and Third Regiment of the Ohio National Guard are standing in the street waiting to be reviewed after the fire exhibition. Lining the side of street are spectators watching the exhibition. Behind the spectators are a number of Dayton businesses including the Geo. C. Albert's Cigar Store at 20 North Main Street, Anderton and Son Jewelry Store at 18 North Main Street, John C. Good Drug Store at 16 North Main Street, Benjamin F. Hershey Law Offices at 14 North Main Street, E. Grant Koontz Real Estate at 14 North Main Street, Adolph Grossman Photography at 12 North Main Street, and the Montgomery County Mutual Insurance Company at 12 North Main Street. Near the top of the image is a large billboard that reads, "Straiton and Storm's Owl Cigar now five cents Henry Straus, Distributor, Cincinnati, Ohio". On the far right of the image is the Conover Building and to the left of Conover is the Callahan Bank Building. The buildings are located at the southeast and northeast corners of Third Street and Main Streets.
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Photographer:
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Iddings, Andrew S.
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Date:
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June 17, 1909 |
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