Details
Contributor Wolsieffer, William, composer.
Title The United States Polka, [graphic] / Composed for the piano forte and respectfully dedicated to the United States Fire Compy of Philadelphia by William Wolsieffer
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [ca. 1865]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 32 x 24 cm.(12.5 x 9.25 in.)
Description Sheet music cover containing two views related to the United States Fire Company, the volunteer fire company instituted in 1811. Upper view shows the company fire station at Wood Street above Fourth. Two men stand in front of the firehouse and neighboring buildings are visible. Lower view shows volunteer firefighters, most in uniform, including an African American man, standing around their Philadelphia-style hand-pumper engine. The men wear capelets and hats. Two hold horns and another two rest their hands on the harness of the engine. Also contains a border containing ivy, ribbon, and fire fighting iconography including ladders, hydrants, hoses, and bells.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
pdcp00020
Philadelphia on Stone
Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Fire Companies
Subject United States Fire Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Firefighting equipment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire fighters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire engines -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Sheet music covers -- 1860-1870.
Location Free Library of Philadelphia.| Print and Photograph Collection. | FLP Philadelphiana - Fire Companies