Collection Highlights
Plan of the City of New York
Date:
1776
Object Number:
LIB.NS3.M36.1.3ab
Medium:
Black ink, with pencil additions, on paper backed with paper backed with cloth
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Fire helmet
Object Number:
INV.200
Date:
1854-1880
Medium:
Leather, paint, brass, other metal, gilding, textile, cotton fiber
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 3/4 x 10 3/8 x 14 in. ( 24.8 x 26.4 x 35.6 cm )
Marks:
applied leather: on frontpiece: "[N]Y / EXEMPT / ASSOCIATION / GHN"
incised: on underside of brim: "EFA"
handwritten: on paper affixed inside crown: "M. CALL . . ."
painted: underside of brim: "2334"
Description:
Thirty-two comb black painted leather fire helmet with tooled floral vine border on brim; black leather frontpiece with firefighting tools painted at center and "[N]Y EXEMPT ASSOCIATION" and "GHN" in gold painted leather lettering; gilded brass lion frontpiece holder; textile half-lining with cotton fiber padding.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Fund Association of the 23rd & 24th Wards, 1933
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
