Items

• Swampscott Police Station, 1939

  Picture of the new Swampscott Police Station under construction in 1939.
• Swampscott Police Station, 1921

  Picture of the Swampscott Police Station as it appeared in 1921.
• Swampscott Police Chief Ulysses M. Corson

  Portrait of Swampscott Police Chief Ulysses M. Corson who served as chief from 1907-1922.
• Swampscott Police Department, 1926

  Portrait of the Swampscott Police Department, with two members on motorcycles, in front of Town Hall in 1926. The Chief of Police was fired and the department reorganized in 1925 as a result of the "Rum Running Scandal."--from Swampscott, Massachusetts : celebrating 150 years, 1852-2002, Swampscott Historical Commission, 2002.
• Swampscott Police Department, 1910

  Portrait of members of the Swampscott Police Department in 1910.
• Swampscott Police Department Specials

  Portrait of the 1905 "specials" (pictured from left to right) : Fred McNamara, Alfred Frazier, John Thomas, Dick Gilley, Frank Griffin, John Bryson, Lemuel Pickard, John Doherty, and Eben Martin. Reserve officers and special officers were used over the years to support the regular police force---Then & now : Swampscott, Sue Ellen Woodcock, c2002.
• Swampscott Police Department, 1903

  Portrait of six members of the Swampscott Police Department standing in front of the police station.
• Phillips Beach Engine House

  Members of the Swampscott Fire Department pose in front of the Phillips Beach Engine House.
• Swampscott Fire Department steamer burned in Salem fire

  A man stands next to Swampscott Fire Department steamer that destroyed in the Salem Fire of 1914. In the background the devestated landscape is visible.
• Phillips Beach Fire Station, 1930

  "Known as the Phillips Beach Chemical Firehouse ... the building on Phillips Avenue is still standing today. For years, it was a second fire station for the town until budget contraints closed it down in the 1990s"--Then & now : Swampscott, Sue Ellen Woodcock, c2002.
• Swampscott Fire Department, first fire truck

  Members of the Swampscott Fire Department and town officials pose with the department's first fire truck.
• Swampscott Fire Department and steamer : no.2

  View of the Swampscott Fire Department and the department's steamer.
• Swampscott Fire Department and steamer : no. 1

  View of members of the Swampscott Fire Department and the department's steamer.