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[Cohocksink Hose Company steam engine and fire fighters in front of the company fire station on Germantown Avenue above Fifth Street, Philadelphia] [graphic]
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https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A100974
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Creator
Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer.
Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title
[Cohocksink Hose Company steam engine and fire fighters in front of the company fire station on Germantown Avenue above Fifth Street, Philadelphia] [graphic]
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1865
Date
1865
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.75 x 7 in)
Description
View includes a dog laying in front of a large section of hose on the ground. Company founded September 25, 1856.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Manuscript note on accompanying label: Cohocsink Steam Fire Engine Philada.
Yellow mount with square corners.
Attributed to Robert Newell.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Duplicate of (8)1322.F.5f
Paper backing pasted on verso.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Cohocksink Hose Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fire engines & equipment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire fighters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block.
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Fires & fire fighting [(8)1322.F.5g-1]
Accession number
(8)1322.F.5g-1
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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