Collection Highlights
Southern Chivalry - Argument versus Club's
Date:
1856
Object Number:
PR.010.1856.4
Medium:
Lithograph
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Luce Center
Fire helmet
Object Number:
INV.206
Date:
1870-1900
Medium:
Leather, paint, brass, other metal, textile
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/2 x 11 x 15 1/2 in. ( 24.1 x 27.9 x 39.4 cm )
Marks:
applied leather: on frontpiece: "[NY] / EXEMPT / ASSOCIATION / WH"
printed paper label (fragment): affixed inside top of crown: "CAIRNS"
printed paper label: affixed to inner side of crown: "Americus / Hook & Ladder Co. No. . . ."
painted: underside of
Description:
Eight comb black painted leather fire helmet with tooled linear decoration on crown; black leather frontpiece with firefighting tools painted at center and "[NY] / EXEMPT / ASSOCIATION / WH" in gold painted leather lettering; brass lion frontpiece holder; textile half-lining.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Fund Association of the 23rd & 24th Wards, 1933
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
