Collection Highlights
The Peale Family
Date:
1773-1809
Object Number:
1867.298
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Fire helmet: lion crest
Object Number:
INV.9011
Date:
1850-1880
Medium:
Leather, paint, brass, textile
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 14 1/2 in. ( 22.2 x 26 x 36.8 cm )
Description:
Four comb black leather fire helmet with tooled linear decoration on crown and scroll border on brim; brass lion 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.
