Firemen of Old Lisbon

An old-fashioned fire station in six rooms, with firemen in dark blue uniforms and caps. Upstairs left, two men steady a wooden ladder in a training room hung with rescue knot posters, ropes and hooks. In the middle, a seamstress pins a jacket on a fireman beside a sewing machine, under portraits and rank badges. At the right, three men eat bread at a long table in a blue anchor-papered mess room. Downstairs left, two horses stand harnessed to a red steam pump in a hall with a Lisbon fire districts map and city crest, while a stable hand checks the harness. In the middle, one man coils a long hose and another winds it on a big reel, with taps and nozzles hanging above. At the right, an officer marks a city map beside a fire-call signal board. The red steam pump and the city maps stand out sharply against the station walls, easy markers on both floors.