Showing posts with label fire-fighters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fire-fighters. Show all posts

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Back to the Future


Way back in around 1900 a series of cards was produced imagining what the women of the future would look like doing ‘a man’s work’. Interestingly enough, most jobs are done by woman these days. Here we have the fire-fighter; I don’t think that her bare arms would be of much use in a fire. I wonder what these men would have thought of her.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Sapeurs Pompiers de Paris



These are examples of the different uniforms Parisian fire-fighters would have worn around 1900. In France the fire service deal with all emergencies. Though I’m still wondering about the one with the gun…

As always click on the image to get a better view.