Details
Creator Bosch, A. H., artist.
Contributor Duval & Hunter, printer.
Title Reliance Steam Fire Engine Company of Philadelphia. [graphic] / A. H. Bosch, lith.
Publisher Philadelphia: Duval & Hunter, lith
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 60 x 48 cm.(23.5 x 19 in.)
Description Fire company certificate containing five vignettes showing the company firehouse and engines, and firefighting scenes bordering text framed as a badge. Vignettes depict firefighters gathered around a hand-pump, and a steam engine, at their stations near New and Second streets; firefighters racing an engine past the Public Ledger Building (built 1866-1867) and Independence Hall en route to a fire; and firefighters using a steam engine to battle a fire aboard a sailing vessel, and a hand pump to battle a fire at buildings opposite piers at the Delaware River. Also contains above the vignettes two American flags draped over a pole; a panoramic view of cityscape; an empty framed oval, probably to be used for a photographic portrait of the fire fighter member; two oval frames surrounding the company's institution and incorporation date, 1786 and 1848 respectively; and the company motto "We Persevere to Conquer." Company originally established by Quakers.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 636
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 834 R 279
Duval and Hunter was a partnership between Stephen Orr Duval (P.S. Duval’s son) and Thomas Hunter that lasted from P.S. Duval’s retirement in 1869 until 1874.
Mifflin fund, November 12, 1959.
Subject Reliance Fire Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fire fighters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire engines & equipment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fires -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Membership certificates -- 1860-1870.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 834 R 279