The life of a fireman: the metropolitan system – Antique 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 metropolitan system comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The title, *The Life of a Fireman: The Metropolitan System*, announces its subject, and this hand-colored lithograph by John Cameron was published by Currier & Ives from 115 Nassau Street in New York around 1866. The date places it just after New York's volunteer fire companies were consolidated into the paid Metropolitan Fire Department in 1865, a change that replaced the rival volunteer brigades of earlier decades with a single professional force. Currier & Ives produced many firefighting scenes for a public that followed the city's blazes closely, and this one ties its images of firefighters' daily work to the new system. The Library of Congress also holds a black-and-white impression issued from a different Nassau Street address.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 115 Nassau Street, c1866. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Artist: John Cameron (signature on image). Library has two impressions, one hand-colored, published at 115 Nassau Street, and one b&w, published at 152 Nassau Street. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3784 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,960 × 2,173 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif01577_Thelifeofafiremanthemetropolit |
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