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Smoke Eaters?
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Image Number
004-1064
Date
1948-02-20
Description
Colorado Springs Fire fighters display new breathing apparatus. At far right, Assistant Fire Chief O.L. Dutcher holds the old type of mask. From left to right: Chief Fred Lausch, Larry Brim, Darrel Atkinson, Raymond Fisher, Richard Hal, John W. Davison, Blunt, and Dutcher. Photo ran in Gazette 2/22/1948.
Photographer
Payne, Stanley L., 1914-1991
Location
Colorado Springs (Colo.)
Subject
Fire fighters
Colorado Springs Fire Department
Fire extinction--Equipment and supplies
Collection
Stan Payne Photographs
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Photograph by Stan Payne, © Gazette. Courtesy of The Gazette and Regional History & Genealogy, Pikes Peak Library District, (image number).
Publisher
Pikes Peak Library District
Original Format
Negatives
Physical Description
12 3/4 x 3 3/4 b&w negative
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1/27/2026
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20.4 MB
Scanning Hardware
Epson Expression 12000XL
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Silverfast 8.8
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Smoke Eaters?
(1948-02-20). PPLD Digital Collections, accessed 10/05/2026, https://digitalcollections.ppld.org/nodes/view/1043797
