Details
Creator Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer.
Title [Hand-in-Hand Fire Company fire fighters and steam engine in front of the company fire station at Ninth Street above Poplar Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [ca. 1865]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 17 x 8 cm (3.75 x 6.25 in.) (stereograph format)
Description Depicts fire fighters, including an African American man, posed near a pump engine in front of the station adorned with the signage "1741 Hand In Hand 1741." A rooster stands on the pump. Hand-in-Hand Fire Company, one of the city's first volunteer fire companies, was organized on March 1, 1741 or 1742.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date based on content and attire of the people.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Hand-in-Hand Fire Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire engines & equipment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire fighters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Ninth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- above Poplar Street.
Genre Group portraits -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Fire [(8)1322.F.5e-1]
Accession number (8)1322.F.5e-1