Collection Highlights
Manhattan Rifles!
Date:
1861-1865
Object Number:
PR.055.3.226
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Luce Center
Fire helmet
Object Number:
INV.201ab
Date:
1868-1880
Medium:
Leather, paint, brass, other metal, textile
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/4 x 10 3/4 x 14 1/4 in. ( 23.5 x 27.3 x 36.2 cm )
Marks:
applied leather: on frontpiece: "RESCUE / 1 / . . ."
incised: on underside of brim: "W"
stamped: on underside of brim: "CAIRNS & BRO / 143 GRAND ST. N.Y."
handwritten: on tape affixed to back of brim:
painted: underside of brim: "2334"
Description:
Eight comb black painted leather fire helmet with tooled linear decoration on crown and scroll border on brim; detached leather frontpiece (b) with large gold "1" appliquéd on red ground with black leather frame; 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.
