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Silver badge (number 51) from the West Hoboken, NJ Fire Department.

Hand colored photo postcard of the Headquarters of the Highwood Fire Company No. 4 at 52 Duer Place. Postmarked April 9, 1910 from Hoboken.

The rule book of a Weehawken volunteer fire company from 1905. This is an unmarked small black book, 24 pages long.

Patch from the Weehawken Signal Bureau - Police and Fire. Thanks to Tom Cheplic and Jeff Welz for solving this mystery - this patch is from the 1970s and was issued to the folks who ran emergency communications and traffic signals.

Insignia of the Weehawken Fire Department before it was absorbed into the North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue in 1999.

Hand colored photo postcard of the Clifton Hose Company headquarters perched atop the Palisades at the site of today's Old Glory Park. Postmarked August 8, 1908 from Jersey City.

On September 15, 1937, an electrical accident at the S.B. Penick and Company mixing plant sparked a major fire, visible for miles around. More than 100 employees were evacuated with 20 injuries reported and 600 students at PS 1 (the Lincoln School)…

Black and white photo of an early fire engine marked "Weehawken F.D." According to retired NHRFR Captain Willie Demontreux: The photo shows the engine from Jane street of the Palisades Hose Company 2 or just the Weehawken Fire Department after 1926.…

This black and white photo postcard shows Engine 4 from the Highwood Hose Company (1900-1960s).

Colored photo of the American La France fire engine, which was an antique when it was photographed in 1953 on Park Avenue.