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Contributor Haehnlen, Jacob, b. 1824, printer.
Title Firemen's furnishing house. Fire hats, belts, fatigue caps, shirts, &c. J.M. Migeod & Son 27 South Eighth St. Philada. Manufacturers of firemen's, military & society goods. [graphic] : Service and parade horns, lanterns, torches, spanners, metal badges, ball badges, marshal's badges, sashes and batons for parades. Mourning draperies for hose carriages and steamers, feather plumes for horses, flags, banners and markers. Gold and silver fringe and trimmings, gloves of all kinds, woolen neck ties, coat buttons ad covers, firemen's pictures. Military & fire companies and societies fitted out with every article required.
Publisher Philadelphia: Jacob Haehnlen
Date [ca. 1868]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 46 x 35 cm.(18.25 x 13.75 in.)
Description Advertisement containing vignettes, and firefighting, military, and patriotic iconography. Central scene shows firefighers rushing equipment to and battling a building on fire during the evening. Other vignettes show a military parade and a masonic parade. Iconography includes an American eagle clutching a bundle of firefighting tools, American flags, men in Zouave and firefighting uniforms, a firefighter's and dress calvary helmet. The business J.M. Migeod was renamed J.M. Migeod & Son in 1866.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 254
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Society Collection - Posters & Broadsides - Advertisements - Miscellaneous Folder 2
Haehnlen operated a lithography studio until ca. 1873.
Subject J.M. Migeod & Son.
Clothing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Insignia -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Parades & processions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fires -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire fighters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire engines & equipment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Society Collection - Posters & Broadsides - Advertisements - Miscellaneous Folder 2