Details
Contributor Harrison & Weightman, printer.
Title Running to a fire. A colision [sic]. [graphic].:
Publisher Philadelphia: Pub. by Harrison & Weightman, 118 N. 10th St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1858
Date c1858
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 28 x 24 cm. (11 x 9.5 in.)
Description One of a series of satires mocking the ineptitude of Philadelphia volunteer firefighters. Shows the rushing volunteer jostling the stand of a female fruit peddler at a street corner. She looks in annoyance over her tipped fruit baskets and spilt bottle of refreshment as the firefighter rushes past, blowing the rallying trumpet call. Storefronts, including a drugstore, and a street lamp are visible in the background.
Is part of The Fireman. No. 1
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 253a
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Harrison & Weightman was a partnership between Henry G. Harrison and William N. Weightman.
Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - The Fireman (Cartoons)
Subject Volunteer fire departments -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire fighters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadephia.
Clumsiness.
Peddlers & peddling -- Pennsylvania -- Philadephia.
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Satires (Visual works) -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW - Fires and Fire Fighting [P.8970.10]
Accession number P.8970.10