The life of a fireman: the ruins--take up"--"man your rope."" – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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The life of a fireman: the ruins--take up"--"man your rope.""
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The title's commands, "take up" and "man your rope," point to the moment after a blaze, when firemen have reached the smoldering ruins and must haul their gear out. Louis Maurer, a German-born artist who drew many of Currier & Ives's firefighting scenes, made this chromolithograph around 1854, when volunteer fire companies were a visible part of street life in New York. The series appealed to a middle-class buyer who admired the courage and camaraderie of these crews, and the print shows the rough, physical labor that lay behind that romantic picture.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1854. |
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| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Artist: Louis Maurer (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3788 Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 105. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,068 × 2,290 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif01572_Thelifeofafiremantheruinstakeu |
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