Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Contributor P.S. Duval & Son, printer.
Title Certificate of Honorary Membership of the Weccacoe Fire Company. Philadelphia. [graphic] / Des. & Lith. By Jas. Queen.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed in colors by P.S. Duval & Son
Date [ca. 1860]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 47 x 60 cm. (18.5 x 24 in.)
Description Honorary membership certificate containing vignettes of Weccacoe Fire Company engine houses and firefighting equipment between 1840 and 1860 within a decorative border adorned with filigree, bugles, and axes. American flags, laurel wreaths, and an eagle with a shield surmounts the text in the central portion of the certificate, below which is an 1860 view of the fire company’s engine house on the 100 block of Queen Street in Southwark. Fire fighters and wagons loaded with equipment congest the street in the foreground. A large American flag flies atop the roof of the engine house. Left and right panels contain smaller views of the 1840 firehouse and its hand-pumper fire engine and the three-story, enlarged engine house and a steam fire engine from 1850. All scenes include fire fighters dressed in the red and blue Weccacoe uniform.
Is referenced by Wainwright 45
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 98
Library of Congress: PGA - Duval - - Certificate of honorary membership (C size)
Atwater Kent Museum: 88.98.685. AKM copy issued to William Schlag. Signed by the [illegible] president and Wm. B. Landon, Secretary.
Subject Weccacoe Fire Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fire fighters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire engines -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Firefighting equipment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Eagles.
Flags.
Geographic subject Queen Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 119.
Southwark (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Membership certificates -- 1850-1860.
Location Library of Congress| Prints and Photographs Division | PGA - Duval - - Certificate of honorary membership (C size)