Details
Contributor Leonhardt, Theo. (Theodore), 1818-1877.
Title [Specimen sheet of volunteer fire fighting vignettes] [graphic]
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 print: transfer lithograph; 22 x 31 cm. (8.5 x 11.75 in.)
Description Specimen sheet containing seven volunteer fire fighting vignettes numbered 998-1004. Vignettes depict a fire hydrant (998); firefighters racing a horse-drawn steam engine and hand-drawn hose carriage down a city street; the anchor emblem of the Hope Fire Company (1000); a firefighter in his uniform of helmet, long coat, and boats holding a hose with smoke in the background (1001); coat of arms of Philadelphia (1002); firefighters racing a horse-drawn ladder truck down a city street (1003); and a firefighter using a ladder to rescue a woman and baby from a smoke filled window with a hose at his side. In 1870 Philadelphia passed an ordinance establishing a paid fire department.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Possibly printed by Theodore Leonhardt.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 226
Gift of Manuel Kean.
Subject Volunteer fire departments -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire engines & equipment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire fighters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Rescue work -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Transfer lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Samples -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Fires & Firefighting [P.8511.1]
Accession number P.8511.1