Image of a blank stock firefighter's membership certificate with surrounding vignettes of a firefighter returning a rescued baby to its mother; a female nurse tending to a wounded firefighter; a firefighter with a speaking trumpet; firemen in a city street at night before a burning building with steam fire engines and hoses; a firefighter pulling a fire engine; and firefighters aiming a house towards flames; certificate decorated with images of firefighting equipment including fire hats, speaking trumpets, axes, bells, lanterns, preventers, ladders, buckets, censers, fire hydrants, and fire hoses. "Copyright 1877 by Currier & Ives N.Y."--text, bottom center margin. "Published by Currier & Ives"--text, bottom left margin. "115 Nassau St. New York"--text, bottom right margin. "Courage Fidelity Protection"--text of banner at top center of certificate.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 65.72 x 50.48 cm (25 7/8 x 19 7/8 in.)
Fire departments Fire extinction--Equipment and supplies--Pictorial works Fire fighters--Pictorial works Fires--Pictorial works Rescues--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (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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