(Courtesy of NASHUA HISTORICAL SOCIETY) Powered by a "3-horsepower engine," this spiffy looking example of Nashua firefighting history was designated Steamer No. 4 when the Nashua Fire Department purchased it from the Amoskeag Machine Company of Manchester in 1896. Part of the Nashua Historical Society's Frank Ingalls Collection, the photo is a print taken from a glass plate that Ingalls made sometime between 1896 and 1903. The driver may be Charles E. Farnsworth; the man partially seen at the rear of the engine is firefighter Alonzo Neff. The team is said to be traveling west on East Hollis Street, toward Main Street. In the background at far left are the twin steeples that adorned Nashua High School, which at the time was on Spring Street. The tall chimney next to the steeples rises from the Nashua Lock and Hardware Company, the school's next door neighbor.

Powered by a ‘3-horsepower engine,’ this spiffy looking example of Nashua firefighting history was designated Steamer No. 4 when the Nashua Fire Department purchased it from the Amoskeag Machine Company of Manchester in 1896. Part of the Nashua Historical Society’s Frank Ingalls Collection, the photo is a print taken from a glass plate that Ingalls made sometime between 1896 and 1903. The driver may be Charles E. Farnsworth; the man partially seen at the rear of the engine is firefighter Alonzo Neff. The team is said to be traveling west on East Hollis Street, toward Main Street. In the background at far left are the twin steeples that adorned Nashua High School, which at the time was on Spring Street. The tall chimney next to the steeples rises from the Nashua Lock and Hardware Company, the school’s next door neighbor.