Details
Title [Humane Engine Company hand-pump fire engine] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, gilted, and hand-colored; 21 x 31 cm.(8 x 12 in.)
Description View of the engine of the hose company instituted in 1794 that operated from Callowhill Street above Second Street. Engine contains double-decker end stroke pumper handles and panels illustrated with female figures, including a woman holding a sleeping child in her lap. A company volunteer, attired in his fire hat and uniform, holds a trumpet in one hand and rests his other on one of the pumper handles. Also contains a banner with the company motto: "Judge Us By Our Actions."
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 114
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 832 H 88
Subject Humane Engine Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fire engines & equipment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Firefighters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Ba 832 H 88