Fire Bucket, "Young America"
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This leather bucket is marked “Young America 1.” “Young America” was a name commonly used by fire companies. For example, Philadelphia and Salem both had engines named “Young America,” while there was a Young America Fire Company in Sacramento and a Young American Engine Company in San Francisco. Such names allowed volunteer firemen to present themselves as heartily patriotic. This bucket may have been painted red to further emphasize this theme. Fire companies envisioned themselves as “embodiments of the body politic,” and this was especially evident in their language of naming and in the decoration of their equipment.
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: 2005.0233.0274
label: accession number
content: 2005.0233
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0233.0274
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bucket, fire
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 7 1/4 in; 29.21 cm x 18.415 cm