Half-tone print on cardboard comprised of eleven separate head-and-shoulders portraits of Detroit Fire Department officials: Chief James Battle, Assistant Chief James R. Elliott, Late Assistant Chief Mark Gascoigne, Chief of the Battalion John Kendall, Superintendent of Fire Alarm Telegraph William Gardiner, Master Mechanic Francis Beaufait, Assistant Superintendent of Telegraph Louis Gascoigne, Chief of 2nd Battalion James C. Broderick, Chief of 3rd Battalion William Gowan, Chief of 4th Battalion John O'Neil, and Chief of 5th Battalion William H. Harris. "C. 1893," is handwritten in the lower right corner.
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