Collection Highlights
Terms of Surrender
Date:
April 9, 1865
Object Number:
MSS.BV.Grant
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Fire helmet
Object Number:
INV.202
Date:
1850-1870
Medium:
Leather, paint, brass, other metal, textile
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 x 11 3/4 x 14 in. ( 22.9 x 29.8 x 35.6 cm )
Marks:
stamped: on underside of brim: "WILSON / MAKER / 135 BOWERY / N. Y."
handwritten: on tape affixed to back of brim: "39"
Description:
Eight comb black painted leather fire helmet with tooled linear decoration on crown and floral vine border on brim; brass eagle frontpiece holder (frontpiece missing); textile half-lining.
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.
