Gresham Ladies Volunteer Fire Department Hose Team
by Gresham Ladies Volunteer Fire Department Hose Team 1914
Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
The Gresham Ladies Volunteer Fire Department Hose Team in 1914. The photograph shows ten teenage girls and one boy, Ernest Thompson, lined up against a stone building with a hose wagon.
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- Description
- The Gresham Ladies Volunteer Fire Department Hose Team in 1914. The photograph shows ten teenage girls and one boy, Ernest Thompson, lined up against a stone building with a hose wagon.
- Provenance
- Found in collections. A contemporary description of the team members from the Morning Oregonian: Iris Gullickson, nozzle girl, Evelyn Metzger and Hester Thorpe, hydrant girls, Olive Merrill, leader, Ethel Merrill and Marguerite Schantine, handle girls, Isabel Metzger, Bessie Strebin, Addie Quesinberry, and Eva Hamlin, cart pullers. Mrs. C. Merrill chaperoned the team; Ernest Thompson was team manager. Girls' hose teams were briefly an attraction in Oregon in the early 1910s, with teams from Astoria, Lents, and Gresham competing in hose laying and racing competitions at events like Fourth of July festivals, Pendleton Round Up, and the Multnomah County Fair. The Gresham team also put on an exhibition at the Willamette Valley Firemen's Tournament in 1914.
- Date
- 1914
- Creator
- Gresham Ladies Volunteer Fire Department Hose Team
- Subject
- Strebin, Bessie
- Metzger, Evelyn
- Thorpe, Hester
- Metzger, Isabell
- Merrill, Olive
- Quesinberry, Addie
- Gullickson, Iris
- Schantine, Margaret
- Merrill, Ethel
- Hamlin, Eva
- Thompson, Ernest
- Burton, Evelyn Metzger
- Gresham Fire Department
- Girls
- Sports
- Location
- Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Identifier
- ghs859ab
- Contributor
- Gresham Historical Society
- Extent
- Print, Photographic
- Type
- StillImage
- Item sets
- Gresham Heritage
