The American fireman: prompt to the rescue – Vintage Print
![The American fireman: prompt to the rescue, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1858. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/55/55b06c3420f2-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
Step back in time with The American fireman: prompt to the rescue, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The American fireman: prompt to the rescue
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Titled "The American Fireman: Prompt to the Rescue," this hand-colored lithograph shows a volunteer crew heading out to a blaze with the hand-pumped engines common before steam fire apparatus. Currier & Ives issued it in New York in 1858 as part of a long series of fire scenes aimed at a broad middle-class market. Volunteer companies of the period were social clubs as much as emergency services, and rival crews often raced one another to fires, so the scene reflects both urgency and local pride. The color was applied by hand after printing, which is why individual impressions vary slightly.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1858. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0167. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,571 × 3,233 px · prints to 9 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif01570_TheAmericanfiremanprompttother |
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