The Life of a Fireman. The Metropolitan System.
date: label: Date made
content: 1866
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: New York City Fire Department
label: lithographer
content: Cameron, John
label: maker
content: Currier & Ives
notes: label: Description
content: Color print of firemen with various fire engines responding to a fire. The fire is in one of a row of multi-story buildings on a city street. A label on the mat on the print at the time of cataloging identified this as "Plate 6/ Engine Co, No. 29 and Hook and Ladder Co. No. 10,/ proceeding south on Broadway below Dey Street."
label: Description
content: By 1865, New York's volunteer fire companies were replaced by a city-wide professional fire department and they had finally converted to a steam.pump fire engine. Currier & Ives issued a sixth and last print to its Life of a Fireman series in 1866 to to illustrate thes changes.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: depicted
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Land Transportation
label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1860-1869
label: Subject
content: Fire Fighting
label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Architecture, Commercial Buildings
label: Subject
content: Civic Associations
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Art
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.63.0178
label: catalog number
content: 63.0178
label: accession number
content: 242030
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 16 7/8 in x 26 1/8 in; 42.8625 cm x 66.3575 cm