Queen for a day, Annie Latleif (Tyler) reigns as Miss Sandy Spring Volunteer Department in the 1949 Firemen's Parade. She rides in Marie Snowden Edsinger's 1937 Ford coupe. To her left is the future Sandy Spring Museum site and behind it the Snowden home.

The Department's first pumper was a 1924 International chemical unit, which carried two 30-gallon tanks of soda and acid. Mixed in a booster tank, the chemicals caused a reaction that pressurized the water for extinguishing fires. Here, Herbert H. Adams, owner of the Sandy Spring Store, mans the wheel beside Henry Becraft of Montgomery Mutual Insurance.