Exempt certificate. This is to certify that George H. Waite has served seven full years as an active member of Rescue Hook & Ladder Co. Watkins, NY Fire Department
Image of a firefighter's exempt membership certificate from the Village of Watkins, New York, made out in manuscript to George H. Waite of the Rescue Hook and Ladder Company, and dated January 21, 1903; surrounded by eight vignettes depicting a goddess holding a spear and surrounded by mining and industrial equipment; a firefighter with a speaking trumpet climbing onto a building; a wounded firefighter at the bottom of a ladder being helped by a female nurse and other firemen; side views of a steam fire engine and a manual fire engine; a hook and ladder truck and hose carriage on the street before a building; a firefighter bringing a rescued child down a ladder towards her mother; and firefighters climbing a ladder to bring a hose up to the roof of a building; the certificate has an orange embossed seal of the Village of Watkins at lower center. Single-color print. "Copyright 1898 by J.R. Jones"--text, bottom center margin. "Exempt certificate. This is to certify that George H. Waite has served seven full years as an Active Member of Rescue Hook & Ladder Co. Watkins, NY Fire Department and is admitted and entitled to all the honors benefits and privileges of an Exempt Fireman Witness our hands and the Seal of the [blank] affixed this twenty first day of January A.D. 1903 [blank] Sec'y. George D. Norman Geo. D. Norman Chief Engineer. Edward A. Gillett Clerk."--text of certificate, printed and handwritten.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 60.01 x 46.04 cm (23 5/8 x 18 1/8 in.)
Fire departments Fire engines--Pictorial works Fire extinction--Equipment and supplies--Pictorial works Fire fighters--Pictorial works Fires--Pictorial works Rescues--Pictorial works Watkins New York Fire Department Lithographs--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Lithographs--1900-1925. (gmgpc) Certificates. (gmgpc)
Place
Watkins (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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