Fire Bucket, "W.L.A."
date: label: date made
content: ca 1821
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This riveted bucket was used by the Water Line Association, formed in 1817 at Lexington, Kentucky. Because it is riveted and not hand-sewn, it was most likely produced in the mid to late nineteenth century.
label: Description
content: Note: The W.L.A. was some sort of community organization, but its exact purpose is unknown. It could have been involved in supplying water for firefighting, or it might simply have been a fraternal organization that had its own buckets. The W.L.A. is not listed in the Lexington city directories for 1818 or 1859-60, and it is not mentioned in William Henry Perrin’s History of Fayette County, Kentucky or in Allen Share’s Cities in the Commonwealth: Two Centuries of Urban Life in Kentucky.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: classified
content: Fire Fighting
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Fire Fighting and Law Enforcement
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of CIGNA Museum and Art Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0233.0263
label: accession number
content: 2005.0233
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0233.0263
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bucket, fire
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 7 1/4 in; 27.94 cm x 18.415 cm