Image of an outdoor scene with caricatures of black firefighters pulling a hook and ladder truck with hand buckets that itself carries a manual fire engine pulled by additional firemen, towards a fire at a dilapidated cabin labeled "Hotel D'Afrique" with African American guests in their pajamas fleeing the burning building and running towards a lake; individual caricatures include a man drinking liquor from a bottle, guests escaping from a tree, a man with a banjo, a woman with the words "El Mardi" on her nightdress, men carrying a chicken, pig and stove, men trying to pull a mule while one wields a baseball bat, and a dog attached to a wooden barrel; a sign above the hotel door reads "Table D'Hote" and "Not responsible for money and jewels not left in the safe" and the fire truck has the label "Manufactured by Rumsey & Co. Ltd Seneca Falls New York." Probable date range approximated by cataloger based on general style of image. "Crump Label Co. N.Y."--text, bottom left margin. "Copyrighted by Eugene A. Rumsey, Seneca Falls, N.Y."--text, bottom right of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 46.67 x 66.52 cm (18 3/8 x 26 3/16 in.)
African Americans--Pictorial works Caricatures and cartoons Fire engines--Pictorial works Fire extinction--Equipment and supplies--Pictorial works Fire fighters--Pictorial works Fires--Pictorial works Rumsey and Company Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Cartoons (Commentary). (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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