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Built by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company

Description: Image of vignettes of elevation views of the sides steam fire engines, fire hose trucks, and related firefighting vehicles with a central image of a steam fire engine with red wagon wheels labeled "Brooklyn 10" and "B F D 10" with city buildings in the background, and surrounding vignettes of nine vehicles including one steam engine labeled "Arba Read," one with two men standing next to it, another with a man in a top hat and firefighter's cape that reads "Amoskeag"; the borders of the vignettes are decorated with firefighting equipment including ladders, hoses, speaking trumpets, hats, torches, lanterns, and a firefighter blowing into a trumpet.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1870
Call number: priJLC_FIRE_001506

Built by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. Manchester, N.H

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Image of a side view of a steam fire engine, with a driver and two horses, and seven firefighters, some wearing hats labeled "S F E" and holding fire hoses, standing around the vehicle outdoors; the engine's cylinder is labeled "Amoskeag" and has hoses attached including one labeled "Boyd's Patent Hose."

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Button fire engine works : Holroyd & Co. Proprietors Waterford, Saratoga Co., N.Y

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Image of a central image of a steam fire engine with two firefighters being drawn by two horses through a city street with a burning building in the background and a fire hydrant in the foreground; with seven vignettes consisting of five firefighting vehicles, a bundle of firefighting accessories including a ladder, hook, pick, lantern, speaking trumpet, and fireman's hat labeled "8", and an elevated view of the exterior of the Button Fire Engine Co. factory buildings in Waterford, New York, with someone aiming a stream of water from a hose over the roof of a building.

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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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3rd.. size steam fire engine built by the Silsby Manufacturing Co. Seneca Falls, N.Y

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Image of an eye-level view of firefighters pulling a steam fire engine through a deserted city street at night towards the flames of a burning building in the background; the fire engine is labeled "Little Giant" and has "3" on the light.

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This certifies that ... is a member of ... Company; No. ... Fire Department

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Image of a blank stock firefighter's membership certificate with surrounding vignettes of a firefighter returning a rescued baby to its mother; a female nurse tending to a wounded firefighter; a firefighter with a speaking trumpet; firemen in a city street at night before a burning building with steam fire engines and hoses; a firefighter pulling a fire engine; and firefighters aiming a house towards flames; certificate decorated with images of firefighting equipment including fire hats, speaking trumpets, axes, bells, lanterns, preventers, ladders, buckets, censers, fire hydrants, and fire hoses.

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This is to certify that H. H. Flagg ... Gold Hill Fire Department

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Image of a firefighter's membership certificate from the Gold Hill Fire Department of Gold Hill, Nevada, made out in manuscript to H. H. Flagg and dated May 22, 1867, with multiple vignettes including bare-chested goddesses riding two horses, with one holding a triton; a manual fire engine and a steam fire engine; a firefighter returning a rescued baby to its mother; a wounded firefighter on a mattress being nursed by a young woman while another fireman on a ladder behind them lowers a bundle tied in a rope; two eye-level exterior views of firehouses, both labeled "Yellow Jacket Engine Ho."; and an elevated landscape view presumably of the town of Gold Hill, Nevada; the certificate and vignettes are decorated with borders containing ivy leaves, bean pods, grapes, and other plants and firefighting equipment including fire hydrants, hoses, ladders, hats, speaking trumpets, a lantern, censers, and axes.

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Built by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company

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