Details
Creator Heiss, George G.
Contributor Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Title Fair Mount Fire Company. Instituted Febr. 22th, 1823. Incorporated April 19th, 1850. [graphic]. Drawn, lithographed & published by Geo. G. Heiss, 213 N. 2nd St. 3rd story.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed by Wagner & McGuigan
Date 1855
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 33 x 46 cm.(13 x 18 in.)
Description View of the hand-powered Philadelphia-style fire engine of the company that operated from Ridge Avenue above Wood Street in Spring Garden. A firefighter, in uniform, and holding a hose nozzle stands next to the engine. Engine contains double decker end-stroke hand pumpers and is adorned with ornamental details shaped as swans, and a panel decorated with a female figure and the maker plate "John Agnew, Philadelpa." A trumpet hangs from one of the pump levers. Also contains a border with geometric details. Fairmount Company was organized after the dissolution of the Whale Fire Company and butchers comprised much of the early membership.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Publication date written on stone lower left corner.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 224
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 832 F 165
Removed from Stauffer Collection, vol. 22, p. 1679.
Subject Fairmount Fire Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fire engines & equipment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire fighters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 832 F 165