Fire Bucket, "Marsh, Capen & Lyons"
date: label: Date made
content: 1831
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: Businesses like the Boston bookseller Marsh, Capen & Lyons owned fire buckets that could be filled from wells and cisterns and passed hand to hand to feed the engine fighting the fire. These utilitarian objects were often decorated with patriotic motifs. Here the eagle and shield are meant to evoke patriotism and a sense of protecting the well-being of the community and nation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: Fire Fighting
label: Subject
content: publishers
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: 2005.0233.0005
label: accession number
content: 2005.0233
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0233.0005
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bucket, fire
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: hand-sewn leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 7 in x 7 in; 33.02 cm x 17.78 cm x 17.78 cm