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Transporting a fire engine, New York City

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Image ID

804723


Item data

Title

Transporting a fire engine, New York City

Collection

Wallach Division Picture Collection
New York City -- Fire Department -- 1899 & Earlier

Names

Tuthill, William H. (Lithographer)

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1825 (Inferred)

Library Location

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC NEW YC-Fir-18

Subjects

Aqueducts -- New York (State)
New York (N.Y.). Fire Dept -- To 1899
Horses -- New York (State) -- New York -- To 1899
Bridges -- New York (State) -- New York -- To 1899
Fire engines -- New York (State) -- New York -- To 1899
Floats (Parades) -- New York (State) -- New York -- To 1899
Erie Canal (N.Y.)
Little Falls (N.Y.)
Mohawk River (N.Y.)
Passes (Landforms)

Genres

Allegorical Prints

Notes

Content: Scene relating to the parade of the Fire Department in New York City during the celebration of the opening of the the Erie Canal. "This fine Engine [of Clinton Company, No. 41] is mounted on a car, carpeted, and beautifully decorated with festooned drapery over vallences; it is drawn by four horses; postilions are mounted on the leaders; the driver is seated on the car, and in his rear, but in front of the Engine, is a Fireman carrying a Banner, supported on the right and left by a member of the Company. The back ground of this Engine is taken from a picture painted on the back of the condenser, and represents an imaginary, rather than real view of the Aqueduct Bridge at Little Falls, over the Mohawk River, with Locks and other circumstances attending Canals."--from source text.

Physical Description

Lithographs
Extent: 21 x 19 cm. (8 x 7 1/4 in.)

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17538225
Barcode: 33333159156625
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 42514480-c55d-012f-0653-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1825

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Transporting a fire engine, New York City" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1825. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/42514480-c55d-012f-0653-58d385a7bc34

APA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1825). Transporting a fire engine, New York City Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/42514480-c55d-012f-0653-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Transporting a fire engine, New York City" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 10, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/42514480-c55d-012f-0653-58d385a7bc34

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