American fire engine, 1857
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Research CatalogImage ID
804743
Item data
Title
American fire engine, 1857
Collection
Wallach Division Picture Collection
New York City -- Fire Department -- 1899 & Earlier
Names
Moss Engraving Company (Platemaker)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1887
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC NEW YC-Fir-18
Subjects
New York (N.Y.). Fire Dept -- To 1899
Fire engines -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1850-1859
Genres
Notes
Content: "Moss Eng. Co. N.Y."--printed on image.
Source Note: Our firemen : a history of New York Fire Department. (New York : A. Costello, 1887) Costello, Augustine E., Author.
Physical Description
Line photoengravings
Extent: 8 x 14 cm. (3 x 5 1/2 in.)
Red stains on image.
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17538225
Barcode: 33333159156823
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 1aa269b0-c55d-012f-5b5d-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1887
Cite this item
MLA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "American fire engine, 1857" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1887. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1aa269b0-c55d-012f-5b5d-58d385a7bc34
APA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1887). American fire engine, 1857 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1aa269b0-c55d-012f-5b5d-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "American fire engine, 1857" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 14, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1aa269b0-c55d-012f-5b5d-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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