Amherst College Fire Department Records, 1942-1948, 1997
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Amherst College Fire Department Records
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Biographical History for: Amherst College Fire Department Records
Historical Note The Amherst College Fire Department was organized in the fall of 1941 by Theodore S. Bacon, Jr. (AC Class of 1942) and Assistant Dean Richard MacMeekin as part of the College Civilian Defense Program. The original group of 24 men were trained in fire fighting techniques by the Chief of the Amherst Fire Department. Later the brigade was reorganized into two student companies and a permanent company of six men from the College's Buildings and Grounds Department.
Scope and Contents of the Collection Correspondence, receipts for supplies and equipment, photographs, rosters, fire brigade histories and newspaper clippings documenting the activities of the Amherst College Fire Department.
Bacon, Theodore Spaulding.
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MacMeekim, Richard.
Amherst College. Fire Dept.
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Amherst College--History--Sources.
Amherst College--Fires and fire prevention.
Amherst College. Class of 1942. Bacon.
Atlas Safety Equipment 1943
Buffalo Fire Appliance Corporation 1942
Cairns & Brother 1942-1945
Catalogue of Apparatus and Equipment 1948 Jun 30
Miscellaneous equipment 1942-1944
Fire boxes n.d., 1943-1946
Fire Brigade n.d., 1942-1948
Fire Brigade calls 1943-1948
Fire Brigade (Histories) n.d., 1942-1944, 1947
Fire Brigade rosters 1942-1946
Fire correspondence (miscellaneous, excluding equipment) 1942-1948
Globe Rubber Works, Inc. 1942
Gorham Fire Equipment Co. 1942-1947
Horace R. Barker/Elkhart Brass 1942-1943
James B. Hunt Manufacturing Co. 1943
Jefferson Auto Specialties 1942
John H. Hill Motor Service/Seagrave 1942
Justin A. McCarthy/Loyed W. Briggs 1942-1945
Maxim Motor Company 1942-1943
Membership Certificate book 1944-1945
Midwestern Manufacturing Company 1942-1943
National Fire Protection Association 1942-1944
Newspaper clippings 1942-1943, 1948
Newspaper clippings 1997
Pirsch 1943
Rockwood Sprinkler Co. 1942, 1945
Rowe's 1942
United States Office of Civilian Defense Publications n.d., [1942], 1942
W. & B. Douglas Pump Co. 1942
W. S. Darley & Co. 1942-1946
War Production Board/Priorities n.d., 1942