Published in time for Christmas 1913, the SOUVENIR SACRAMENTO FIRE DEPARTMENT book is a 120 page treasure trove of facts, photos and advertisements. A driver for Mebius & Drescher Co. poses with his loaded Detroit Electric truck, manufactured between 1910 and 1916. Wholesale distributors and exporters of liquor, cigars, tobacco and hops as well as groceries, for seventy years this company did business out of Front and K Streets from 1868 to 1938, their first and last appearances in the Sacramento City Directory.
