Details
Contributor Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886, printer.
Thunder, Henry G., composer.
Smith, William F., dedicatee.
Fiot, A. publisher.
William Hall & Son, publisher.
Title No. 1 The Empire Hook & Ladder polka [graphic] / Composed by Prof. Henry G. Thunder.; P.S. Duval’s Steam lith. press, Philada.
Publisher Philadelphia: A. Fiot, No. 196 Chestnut St., New York: Hall & Son, Broadway
Date c1852
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 31 x 24 cm.(9.5 x 12 in.)
Description Sheet music cover showing two fire fighters with the company hook and ladder truck in front of the Empire Fire House at Franklin Street above Wood Street in Kensington. The volunteers, attired in uniforms, stand near the rear of the vehicle on which at the harness end of the truck two trumpets hang. The volunteer fire company was instituted February 6, 1851.
Notes Copyrighted by A. Fiot.
Not in Wainwright.
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Manuscript note on recto: Philada Franklin above Wood
Price printed on recto: 37 1/2 Cts net.
Dedication: Dedicated with esteem to Wm F. Smith esq. President. By his friend Ozeas H. Ramborger.
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Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Fire Companies
Subject Empire Hook & Ladder Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Firefighting equipment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire fighters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Sheet music covers -- 1850-1860.
Printer Fiot, A. (Augustus), publisher.
William Hall & Son, publisher.
Location Free Library of Philadelphia.| Print and Photograph Collection. | FLP Philadelphiana - Fire Companies