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Title: San Francisco Fire Department [certificate]
Creator: Nahl, Charles Christian (1818-1878), German, artist Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edison (active ca. 1855), engraver
Date Created and/or Issued: c1855
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Awarded to Richard P. Robinson, November 5, 1852. Includes images of firefighters, and firefighting equipment and engines; allegorical figures include water god, angel, and Minerva (and Charity?).
Printed title (MC). Printed (LL): Charles Nahl, del.; (LC): Entered... 1855 by the San Francisco Fire Department... New York; (LR): Engraved by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edison, New York.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving 59.6 x 45.2 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf60001090
BANC PIC 1963.002:0982--C
Subject: Equipment
Fires
Vehicles
Women

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