Image of an eye-level street view of a New York City street at night with firefighters crowded around a burning three-story building labeled with the sign "J.S. Smith & Co. Drugs Paints Oils. Dye Stuffs & C." and fighting the flames using water hoses attached to manual fire engines; one firefighter rescues a baby from a smoke-filled window and others fight the fire from ladders and the roof, with a central fireman holding a speaking trumpet and wearing a hat that reads "Chief Engineer A.C.", and a hook and ladder truck in the left foreground. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1854 by N. Currier, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y."--text, bottom center margin. "L. Maurer, Del."--text, bottom left margin. "L. Maurer"--text, artist's signature in stone, bottom right of image. "Lith. By N. Currier"--text, bottom right margin. "New York, Published By N. Currier, 152 Nassau Street."--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed hand colored ; overall 51.44 x 71.12 cm (20 1/4 x 28 in.)
New York (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works Fire engines--Pictorial works Fire extinction--Equipment and supplies--Pictorial works Fire fighters--Pictorial works Fires--Pictorial works Rescues--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Place
New York (N.Y.)
Source
Huntington Prints and Ephemera Collection Firefighting Large Size Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library
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