Image of a blank membership certificate from the Firemen's Benevolent Society of Hartford, Connecticut, with a central image of firefighters with hoses, ladders, and manual fire engines amassed on the street and tree-filled park before the Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut, to fight a fire burning in a nearby building labeled with the signs "Elihu Geer Job & Card Printer" and "Case Nevers & Co."; with surrounding buildings labeled "Eagle Tavern" "Exchange Office" and "Oswin Welles," and spectators and a displaced family with their household belongings standing on the street; with a small vignette of a fire hose carriage at bottom center; the image presumably depicts the August 9, 1839, fire in the Mitchell Building on State Street. Probable date approximated by cataloger based on depiction of an 1839 fire and engraver history; J.G. Kellogg settled in Hartford around 1841. "Drawn and Engraved [space] by J.G. Kellogg."--text, bottom center margin. "This may certify that [blank] was admitted a member of the Firemen's Benevolent Society of the city of Hartford. [blank] Secretary. [blank] President."--text of certificate, printed and handwritten.
Type
image
Extent
1 engraving : uncolored ; overall 48.58 x 60.96 cm (19 1/8 x 24 in.)
Hartford (Conn.)--Buildings, Structures, etc.--Pictorial works Hartford (Conn.)--Pictorial works Old State House (Hartford, Conn.)--Pictorial works Fire departments Fire fighters--Pictorial works Fires--Pictorial works Public buildings--Pictorial works Firemen's Benevolent Society Intaglio prints--1825-1850. (gmgpc) Certificates. (gmgpc)
Place
Hartford (Conn.)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Firefighting Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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