Liberty Steam Fire Engine and Hose Company, No. 3, Lebanon, Pa., 1912

"Liberty Steam Fire Engine & Hose Co., No. 3, 517 N. 9th St. (Liberty Square), Lebanon, Pa."

Printed on the back of this postcard: "24222 - Pub. by Harpel's Art Store, Lebanon, Pa. Officers. President - James E. Fisher. Vice-Pres. - Frank W. McAdams. Secretary - Jno. H. Kochenderfer. Treas. - Jno. Werner. Chief Eng. - James Wagner. Driver - Jacob Copenhaver. Hose Chief - E. G. Meily. Organized July 1872. Equipment - 1st size Clapp & Jones Engine & Hose Wagon."

According to an article that appeared in the Lebanon Daily News on April 22, 1970, p. 19, this was one of a series of fire company postcards published by Harpel's Art Store for the thirty-third annual convention of the Pennsylvania State Firemen's Association, which was held in Lebanon on September 10 to 14, 1912.

Similar postcard views of other firemen posing with horse-drawn equipment in front of their stations were common in the early twentieth century. Here are some additional examples: