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This photograph (top) taken at the September 29 preview gives a peek at the exhibition,
including the resplendent Mississippi, a brass steam fire engine manufactured in 1868 by
the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, New Hampshire, on loan from the
Museum of Science and Industry. The Mississippi could pump 900 gallons of water of
minute and send two separate streams over 200 feet into the air. It had been the proud
possession of the Moline Fire Department, and it may have been among the equipment
rushed to help save Chicago. As the two bottom photographs reveal, just getting the
7000-pound engine (not counting water and coal) from one Chicago museum to another was no
easy task.
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Tending the Fire 