Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 artist.
Contributor P.S. Duval & Son, lithographer.
Title Good Will Fire Company of Philadelphia. [graphic] / J. Queen, del.
Publisher Philadelphia : P.S. Duval Son & Co., lith
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1867
Date ca. 1867
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; 46 x 59 cm. (18 x 23 in.)
Description Fire company certificate containing vignettes depicting fire fighters extinguishing a blaze at the Union League of Philadelphia (burned September 7, 1866); the Good Will fire station; and a horse-drawn fire engine. Fire fighting equipment including a fire hat, a ladder, an axe, and other tools are drawn bundled together to form decorative elements on both sides. Pictorial elements are divided by a twisting fire hose. A company ambulance resting upon two intertwining American flags appears above the text.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Issued to William H. Urian on October 12, 1868. Signed by Lewis B. Heins, president, and John M'Cullough, secretary.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 319
Gift of Maxwell Whiteman.
Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Fire Companies. FLP copy tinted with two stones.
Subject Good Will Fire Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fire fighters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire engines & equipment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fires -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Membership certificates -- 1860-1870.
Printer P.S. Duval & Son, lithographer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *Philadelphia certificates - Fires and fire fighting [6526.F]
Accession number 6526.F