Image of an elevation view of the side of a steam fire engine labeled "Silsby" that is decorated with a small American Eagle on the head light; there is a small vignette in the bottom center margin of an elevated view of the Island Works factory buildings of the Silsby Manufacturing Company in Seneca Falls, New York. Date range based on printer history; Clay, Cosack & Co. operated from 1868 to 1877. "Lith. by Clay, Cosack & Co. Buffalo, N.Y."--text, bottom right margin. "H.C. Silsby. / Horace Silsby."--text, bottom left margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 50.8 x 60.96 cm (20 x 24 in.)
Fire engines--Design and construction--Pictorial works Fire engines--Pictorial works Fire extinction--Equipment and supplies--Pictorial works Steam-engines--Pictorial works Silsby Manufacturing Company Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Place
Seneca Falls (N.Y.)
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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