This post was written by Marybeth Kavanagh, Reference Librarian for Prints, Photographs and Architectural Collections
On July 31, 1865, Engine Company 1 of the new Metropolitan Fire Department went into service, and the transition from a volunteer to a paid professional fire department in New York City had begun. The Metropolitan Fire Dept. was originally under the authority of state-appointed commissioners, but in 1870, the Tweed Charter gave New York City’s mayor control of the fire department
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