Details
Creator Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title [Hope Fire Company horse-drawn ambulance in front of the company fire station on Sixth Street below Bainbridge Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1865
Date 1865
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 6 x 10 cm.(2.5 x 4 in)
Description Shows ambulance, probably used to transport wounded, Civil War soldiers, adorned with patriot images and slogans including an eagle, flags, and "Union For Ever." Three boys stand near the ambulance. Company founded November 22, 1796.
Notes Attributed to Robert Newell.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Manuscript note on mount: Hope Ambulance Phila.
Yellow mount with square corners.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Paper baking pasted on verso.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Hope Fire Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fire engines & equipment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Ambulances -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical aspects.
Sixth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 700 block.
Bella Vista (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Fires & fire fighting [(8)1322.F.5d-1]
Accession number (8)1322.F.5d-1