Fire Badge "A.C. Laning Steamer Co."
date: label: date made
content: ca 1894
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This red ribbon badge was made by the Whitehead & Hoag Company of Newark, New Jersey in 1894. The ribbon is decorated with a golden image of a steam fire engine pulled by two horses, and has golden tassels at its bottom. The ribbon reads “SEPT. 13, 1894./A. C. LANING/ NO. 2,/Steamer Company,/W-B. F. D.” in printed gold text.
label: Description
content: Augustus C. Laning (1808–1875) was a prominent businessman in Wilkes-Barre as the owner of an iron foundry and a machine shop. Laning provided the city with its first steam fire engine in 1870, and when the city purchased its second engine in 1874, it was named the A. C. Laning. While the reason for this ribbon’s creation is not known, it is interesting to note that Augustus C. Laning’s grandson, also named Augustus C. Laning, was married one week later, September 20, 1894, in Wilkes-Barre.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Home and Community Life: Fire Fighting and Law Enforcement
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content: Work
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: 2005.0233.1400
label: accession number
content: 2005.0233
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0233.1400
objectType: label: Object Name
content: badge, fireman's
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ribbon (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in; 17.78 cm