Darktown Fire Brigade: The Chief, On Duty, "Lite up dem hose dar --yous heah me!"
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Currier & Ives
Artist bio: American, active New York, 1857–1907
Artist role: Publisher
Artist nationality: American
Date: 1885
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph with some gum arabic
Dimensions: Image: 12 in. × 9 1/4 in. (30.5 × 23.5 cm)
Image and text: 13 5/8 × 9 1/4 in. (34.6 × 23.5 cm)
Sheet: 17 5/8 × 13 3/8 in. (44.8 × 34 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1952
Accession year: 1952