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Washington Hose Company of Philadelphia [certificate] [graphic] / A.H.Bosch, lith.
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A66082
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Creator
Bosch, A. H., lithographer.
Contributor
Duval & Hunter, lithographer.
Title
Washington Hose Company of Philadelphia [certificate] [graphic] / A.H.Bosch, lith.
Publisher
Philadelphia : Duval & Hunter, lith
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date
ca. 1870
Physical Description
1 print : tinted lithograph mounted on cardboard ; 46 x 59 cm. (18 x 23 in.)
Description
Fire company certificate containing vignettes depicting fire fighters arriving at a fire at J.F. [i.e. J.E.] Caldwell & Company's store at 902 Chestnut Street (burned January 14, 1869); the company fire station on Lombard Street, east of 11th Street; and fire fighters pulling a fire engine past University of Pennsylvania buildings on 9th Street. Fire fighting equipment including a fire hose, a ladder, an axe, a bullhorn and other tools are drawn bundled together to form decorative elements on both sides. A small oval photographic portrait of a fireman is pasted above the text.
Is referenced by
Lane & Cresswell, Prints of Philadelphia 207
Fowble 379
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Issued to William H. Taylor on January 6, 1871. Signed by David B. Baker, president, and Joseph J. Ryan, secretary.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 820/821
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.
Gift of Maxwell Whiteman.
Subject
Washington Hose Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fire fighters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire engines & equipment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fires -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre
Lithographs -- tinted -- 1870-1880.
Membership certificates -- 1870-1880.
Printer
Duval & Hunter, lithographer.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *Philadelpia certificates - Fires and fire fighting [6530.F]
Accession number
6530.F
In Collections
Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Philadelphia on Stone: Library Company of Philadelphia
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