Collection Highlights
Memorial sample card
Date:
Object Number:
1947.490a
Medium:
Watercolor and hair on ivory
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Luce Center
Fire helmet frontpiece: perserverance 13 engine
Object Number:
INV.8912
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Leather, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 1/8 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. ( 20.6 x 11.4 x 6.4 cm )
Marks:
stamped: on reverse: "WILSON / . . . / . . . / N.Y."
painted: reverse: "2334"
Description:
Black painted leather frontpiece from a fire helmet; shield shape cut at center and backed with red painted (now darkened) leather with "13" in gold painted leather appliqué; "PERSEVERANCE" and "ENGINE" in applied, gold painted leather lettering at top and bottom.
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.
