Fire company certificate containing vignettes depicting fire fighters racing down a street on a horse-drawn steam fire engine during the day; firefighters, two with trumpets, drawing a hand-pump fire engine out of the station during the night; and an exterior view of the Franklin Fire station. Fire fighting equipment including a trumpet, ax, and belt are drawn bundled together to form a decorative element below the vignettes. Images are bordered by hoses, including two squirting water into the air, and two entwined around the company number "12." Also contains a vignette showing a firefighter shielding a family from flames as a fellow volunteer is at the ready with an ax. Vignette captioned with the company motto "Assist the Needy.", Name of artist supplied by Wainwright., Signed by Thomas H. Clarke, president., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 275, Atwater Kent Museum: 44.91.2
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 44.91.2
Invitations, tickets, and trade cards relating to volunteer fire companies in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Buffalo, 1847-1867., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., This collection gathers fire company related items from several sources, and is open to new additions.
Creator
Library Company of Philadelphia, collector
Date
1847
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll LCP Ephemera Fire Companies 3321.F.115-.121
