Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Contributor Schell, Francis H., 1834-1909, artist.
P.S. Duval & Son, printer.
Title In commemoration of the great parade of the Philadelphia Fire Department October 16th 1865 [graphic] : Dedicated to the Philadelphia firemen and their visiting brethren / on stone by Jas. Queen; designd. by Schell; P.S. Duval & Son lith. Philada.
Publisher Philadelphia: Published by Barclay & Co. 602. Arch St
Date c1865
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 46 x 37 cm. (18.25 x 14.75 in.)
Description Commemorative print containing a portrait of Chief Engineer David M. Lyle in uniform and three vignettes. Vignettes show an injured soldier being transported from an ambulance at the Citizens Volunteer Hospital; a horse drawn steam engine; and fire fighters battling a blaze with a steam engine. Also contains a list of over 100 regional fire companies who participated in the parade surrounded by a border designed as fire hoses extending from a fire hydrant. The 1865 parade was the greatest one in the history of the fire companies with near twenty thousand fireman processing nearly 20 miles from Broad Street. The men marched with decorated steam engines, hand pumpers, and ambulances.
Is referenced by Wainwright 181
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 369
Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Firemen's Parades. FLP holds 2 copies, one is half-sheet.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Reaccesioned P.2272.
Advertisement soliciting "Agents for Every Fire Co." to sell the print published in The Philadelphia Inquirer (October 13, 1865), p. 8.
Subject Lyle, David M. -- Portraits.
Citizens Volunteer Hospital Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Buildings.
Volunteer fire departments -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Parades & processions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire fighters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire engines & equipment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fires -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Ambulances -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Commemorative prints -- 1860-1870.
Printer Barclay & Co., publisher.
Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W181 [P.2272]
Accession number P.2272