Details
Contributor Duval & Hunter, lithographer.
Title Good Intent Hose, Hook & Ladder Company of Philadelphia. [graphic]
Publisher Philadelphia: Duval & Hunter, lith
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date ca. 1870
Physical Description 1 print: tinted lithograph; 47 x 59.5 cm. (18.5 x 23.5 in.)
Description Fire company certificate containing a large central vignette of fire fighters with fire fighting vehicles in front of the State House in Philadelphia surrounded by six smaller vignettes depicting the company's three fire stations (dating 1804, 1848, and 1860); fire fighters battling blazes at T. Morris Perot's drug store (located on 600 block of Market Street, burned December 3, 1868) and at a block of rowhouses; and fire engines. Different era company firemen in uniform stand to either side of the central scene. At the top an eagle holds an empty oval frame and a bundle of fire fighting equipment including ladders, axes, and a bullhorn.
Notes Issued to Thaddeus L.Butcher [who] was duly elected a member...April 5th, 1859. Signed by W.B.R. Selly, president, and Frank Gallen, secretary.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 318/319
Duval and Hunter was a partnership between Stephen C. 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.
Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Fire Companies. FLP copy contains portrait photograph.
Subject Good Intent Hose, Hook & Ladder 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| *Certificates - Fires and fire fighting [6532.F]
Accession number 6532.F