Depicts fire fighters, including an African American man, posed near a pump engine in front of the station adorned with the signage "1741 Hand In Hand 1741." A rooster stands on the pump. Hand-in-Hand Fire Company, one of the city's first volunteer fire companies, was organized on March 1, 1741 or 1742., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on content and attire of the people., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Fire [(8)1322.F.5e-1]
View of fenced in railroad tracks under construction with a railroad construction crew in the distance. The project, to raise tracks above street level to prevent pedestrian casualties from Wayne Junction to Spring Garden Street, lasted from 1907 to 1911. Residences and businesses line the street. Inside the fence, pedestrians, including African Americans, look on from and traverse the makeshift dirt walkways. An African American woman looks on from a second story window, Negative inscribed: 10255; 3-7-10; 0-65., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on verso: Meyers STW 4 23 13., Forms part of: Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company Photograph Collection., Purchase 1989., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator
Harrison, Edward, photographer
Date
March 7, 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company [P.9260.420]
