Fire Helmet, "Hook & Ladder No. 15"
date: label: Date made
content: 1800 or earlier
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This high-crowned, leather work helmet dates from around 1790 to 1810 and lacks the thicker, elongated brims and detachable shields of later-nineteenth-century work hats. The text “Hook & Ladder No. 15” is painted in black directly on the hat’s front. This hat is one of the earlier examples in the firefighting collection, and its four combs distinguish it from simpler eighteenth-century “stove-top” style hats which were made from a single piece of leather.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Fire Fighting
label: Subject
content: Costume
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: 2005.0233.0163
label: accession number
content: 2005.0233
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0233.0163
objectType: label: Object Name
content: helmet, fire
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/2 in x 13 in x 6 in; 34.29 cm x 33.02 cm x 15.24 cm