Image of an advertisement for Albany City Fire Insurance Company of Albany, New York; dozens of firefighters and several fire engines hurry around a corner in the commercial district of Albany towards a large fire blazing along the horizon at left; businesses include "Sprague Bookseller & Stationer," "L. Pruyn & Son Hardware," "Weed & Kingsley Law Office," "Hastings News Depot," "Morse Telegraph Office," "Frothingham's Druggists | Hatter," and "Albany City Fire Insurance Co." at the corner of State Street and Broadway; pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles dodge the firefighters or look on in the busy streets; elaborate frame decorative border with list of directors and officers. Date supplied by cataloger based on printer history; Knickerbocker printed on his own for a brief time after splitting from business partner Abram Hoffman in 1861. "Lith. by C. Knickerbocker, 518 Broadway, Albany, N.Y."--text, bottom center margin. "Capital $200,000. 446. Broadway. Albany N.Y. J.H. Rice. Secretary. Wm. Tillinghast. Prest."--text, center of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : hand colored ; overall 55.09 x 68.1 cm (21 11/16 x 26 13/16 in.)
Advertising--Insurance Albany (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works Commercial streets--Pictorial works Fire engines--Pictorial works Fire fighters--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Finance Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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