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| Title | Howard Cooper fire engine, 1923 |
| Photographer | Richard Nicol |
| Date | 1923 |
| Notes | In 1950, three men in Maple Valley signed a $1000 note to purchase the Howard Cooper, the first fire engine in the valley. The first day on the job, the engine and crew responded to two calls: at the Finnish bathhouse in Hobart and to a housefire. After the Maple Valley Volunteer Fire Department became part of King County, the Howard Cooper was sold in 1955. Eventually it was abandoned in the woods and most of its brass stolen. In 1969, it was purchased by the volunteer firefighters who spent 3144 hours to restore the engine. |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County--Maple Valley |
| Digital Collection | King County Museum Collections
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| Note About Ownership | This record describes one of more than three hundred artifacts, photographs and documents, submitted by members of the Association of King County Historical Organizations. The King County Collects project took place during the county's sesquicentennial in 2001, to celebrate the shared collection of AKCHO's 205 members. The information presented here is the responsibility of the AKCHO organization which submitted the item for inclusion in the project. |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions, contact the Maple Valley Historical Society at (425) 432-3470, or send email to thepavos@hotmail.com. Please cite the Accession Number. |
| Credit Line | Maple Valley Historical Society Photograph Collection |
| Repository | Maple Valley Historical Society Museum |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import. |
