Title: Fire Department - Bootjack
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Fire Department - Officials and Employees, Persons, Transportation - Automotive
Condition: Good
Description: Neil Gillies, one of the 206 property owners along eight miles of Portage Lake in Bootjack proudly displays fire No. 31 which identifies his cottage with the Bootjack Fire Department. This fire system is the only one established in the Copper Country. Persons in photo from left are William Nara, chief; Reuben Rheault, Edmund Aittama, Wesley Sjoblom and Gilles. On truck from left to right, are Alex and David Campbell, Kenneth Bylkas and Wilbert Haapala. [Each of the men display a number representing their properties. The fire department truck is also shown.]
Source of Description: Daily Mining Gazette article June 28, 1958 [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Robert Skuggen
Date of Photo: June 28 1958
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 19.8 cm x 21.2 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS051-15-05-04
Collection Name: Daily Mining Gazette Photograph Collection
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