Image of a blank stock certificate for membership in a fire department with a central image of firefighters fighting a large fire in a town with the ruins of buildings in the background and four vignettes of individual firemen including one beginning to pull a manual fire engine out of a fire house; a firefighter with a horn in the middle of the street pointing towards a burning building; a firefighter rescuing a woman in her bedroom; and a firefighter spraying water from a fire hose on flames; certificate and vignettes are decorated with an ornate border with images of firefighting equipment including fire hydrants, ladders, speaking trumpets, as well as censers, bells, and a vase of flowers. Date span supplied by cataloger based on printer history; Sarony, Major, and Knapp were partners from 1857 until 1863. "Lith of Sarony, Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway N. York" --text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : hand colored ; overall 52.86 x 41.12 cm (20 13/16 x 16 3/16 in.)
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) Certificates. (gmgpc)
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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