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Description: Image of a side view of a parade float drawn by four horses carrying a driver, three firefighters, with one fireman holding the hose pipe, a banner with an image of American Revolutionary War General Lafayette in military costume on a horse with the label "Lafayette October 21 1781" on a ribbon held in the mouth of an eagle, and a manual fire engine labeled "Lafayette 7" on the platform; the image depicts a float in the Grand Canal Celebration for the opening of the Erie Canal in New York City on November 4, 1825.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1826
Call number: priJLC_FIRE_001470
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
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Grand Canal Celebration. : Fire department

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Image of a side view of a parade float drawn by four horses with a driver, two firefighters, including one with an ax and the other the pipe, and a hand-pump manual fire engine labeled "Washington 20" on the platform; the image depicts a float in the Grand Canal Celebration celebrating the opening of the Erie Canal in New York City on November 4, 1825.

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Grand Canal Celebration. : Fire department

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Image of a side view of a parade float driven by four horses with two postilions on horseback and two firefighters, one holding the pipe, two link-boys with lanterns, and a hand-pump manual fire engine labeled "15"; the image depicts a float in the Grand Canal Celebration for the opening of the Erie Canal in New York City on November 4, 1825.

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Organized July 13th 1885. This is to certify that W. H. Conron is an exempt member of the Deposit Fire Department of Deposit, New York

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Image of a firefighter's exempt membership certificate from the Deposit Fire Department of Deposit, New York, made out in manuscript to W. H. Conron and dated August 5, 1907, with a lower vignette of firefighters fighting a fire in a burning building with manual fire engines, hoses, ladders, fire hydrants, shovels, and a fireman on a ladder with a speaking trumpet, and a top vignette of the ruins of a wooden building with spectators on the wooden sidewalk before it; the certificate is bordered with American flags, rope, and preventers.

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Eagle Fire Engine No. 13. as she appeared in the procession on the fourth of November 1825 at the Grand Canal celebration in the city of New York

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Image of a side view of a parade float driven by four horses with four grooms wearing Middle Eastern Turkish costumes and turbans walking beside the horses and a firefighter and two link-boys with torches standing next to a manual fire engine labeled "Eagle Co. 13" with an American flag on the platform; the image depicts a float in the Grand Canal Celebration for the opening of the Erie Canal in New York City on November 4, 1825.

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The fire show fighting the flames : department arriving at fire

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Image of a horse-drawn fire engine and firefighters racing to the scene of a raging fire at a drugstore, with police holding back onlookers; the poster advertises the fire-disaster show "Fighting the Flames" performed for audiences at amusement parks.

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This is to certify that John G. Lubben. having served the time prescribed by the laws of the State of California in the Alameda Fire Department

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Image of a firefighter's certificate of service from the Alameda Fire Department of Alameda, California, made out in manuscript to John G. Lubben and dated July 29, 1893; with four surrounding vignettes depicting firefighters fighting fires and driving towards burning buildings with horse-drawn firefighting vehicles including a hook and ladder truck, hose carriage, and manual fire engine, as well as a top-center vignette of Columbia, the goddess of Liberty, sitting in a field looking at a paper with a shield labeled "California," a bear, sheaths of wheat, and a fireman surrounding her; the vignettes and certificate are bordered by two hoses attached to a fire hydrant and firefighting equipment including ladders, preventers, axes, speaking trumpets, and fire hats; the certificate has an embossed seal of the Alameda Fire Department.

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