Hand-Drawn Hose Reel by Robert Frazier
date: label: date made
content: ca 1855
name: label: builder
content: Frazier, Robert
label: maker
content: Frazier, Robert
notes: label: Description
content: Built by Robert Frazier of Philadelphia for the Reliance Hose Company No. 3 of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. This ornamented hose reel could carry 400 to 600 feet of leather hose. Engines were the female presence in the firehouse. Firefighters adorned them with elaborately painted panels, gilt ornaments, and etched, colored lamps.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (bells; broken glass pane; finials; lantern; plaque)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (apparatus, fire)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (reel)
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Fires
label: Subject
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: 2005.0233.0011
label: accession number
content: 2005.0233
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0233.0011
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Apparatus, Fire
label: Object Name
content: apparatus, fire
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood; metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 76 in x 120 in x 75 in; 193.04 cm x 304.8 cm x 190.5 cm