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Details
Creator Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title [William Penn Hose Company steam engine and fire fighters in front of the company fire station on Frankford Road near Franklin Avenue, 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 View includes a small crowd of boy spectators in the background and a dog sitting on the engine. Company founded February 3, 1830.
Notes Attributed to Robert Newell.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Yellow mount with square corners.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Paper backing pasted on verso.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject William Penn Hose Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fire engines & equipment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire fighters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Frankford Road (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- near Franklin Avenue.
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.5j]
Accession number (8)1322.F.5j