Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Contributor P. S. Duval & Son, printer.
Title Franklin Fire Co. of the city of Philadelphia [membership certificate] [graphic] / Des[igned] & L[ithographed by James Queen]
Publisher Philadelphia: P. S. Duval & Son
Date [ca. 1865]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, tinted with one stone; 38 x 54 cm.(15 x 21 in.) image.
Description Fire company certificate containing vignettes depicting fire fighters racing down a street on a horse-drawn steam fire engine during the day; firefighters, two with trumpets, drawing a hand-pump fire engine out of the station during the night; and an exterior view of the Franklin Fire station. Fire fighting equipment including a trumpet, ax, and belt are drawn bundled together to form a decorative element below the vignettes. Images are bordered by hoses, including two squirting water into the air, and two entwined around the company number "12." Also contains a vignette showing a firefighter shielding a family from flames as a fellow volunteer is at the ready with an ax. Vignette captioned with the company motto "Assist the Needy."
Is referenced by Wainwright 479
Notes Name of artist supplied by Wainwright.
Signed by Thomas H. Clarke, president.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 275
Atwater Kent Museum: 44.91.2
Subject Franklin Fire Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fire fighters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire engines & equipment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Membership certificates -- 1860-1870.
Location Atwater Kent Museum| Print Department AKM| AKM 44.91.2