Details
Contributor Breuker & Kessler Co., printer.
Title Cut outs of firefighting scenes from The Fire Insurance Company of the County of Philadelphia advertisement [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia] : [Breuker & Kessler, Forney's Press Building]
Date [ca. 1866]
Physical Description 2 prints: chromolithograph; 48 x 61 cm.(18.75 x 24 in.)
Description First cutout is captioned "1800" and is within a border containing a banner reading "Incorporated 1832 Charter Perpetual." Shows several volunteers, attired in long coats and top hats, operating a hand-pumper engine near a pond of water and water pump during the day. Other men operate the water pump and use buckets to collect water from the pond as flames shoot from two windows of a building in the background. Two volunteer firefighters, including Joseph Tipler of the United States Engine Company, in uniform flank the scene. The second firefighter's shirt and hat is adorned with "1." Second cutout is captioned "1866" and is surrounded by a border of filigree. Shows several volunteers, during the evening, using steam engines to battle the blaze of two multi-story buildings. Men run and operate hoses from the ground and by ladder, pull equipment, and direct their fellow firefighters. Some volunteers hold an ax or a horn. United States Engine Company was incorporated in 1832.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Attributed to Breuker & Kessler from duplicate print in auction catalog.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 169
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Firefighting Album Am 3989 Cutouts
Subject United States Engine Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fire fighters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire engines & equipment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fires -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Cutouts -- 1860-1870.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Firefighting Album Am 3989 Cutout 1
Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Firefighting Album Am 3989 Cutout 2