Photo Record
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Metadata
Title |
[Medora Hook & Ladder Company No. 3] |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Date |
ca. 1888-1890 |
Collection |
Staten Island Geographic Collection |
Description |
Original B&W print on a cardboard mount. Group portrait of sixteen members of Medora Hook & Ladder Company No. 3 of New Brighton, Staten Island. The men are posed outdoors alongside their ladder wagon. All of the men wear firefighters' helmets. Most wear uniform shirts with the company's emblem on the front, and some wear badges. A large dog lies at the feet of the firefighters at right. There is a handwritten number on the photo beneath each of the men, beginning at left; corresponding inscriptions in the lower margin of the mount identify some of the men. The fifth man from left is Edgar Hicks; the seventh is identified as "Morton"; the ninth is E.H. Seehusen; the tenth is J. Ward; and the fifteenth is Charles G. Dale, the donor's father. The dog is identified as "mastiff - 'Jesse'." There is a stamped inscription on the reverse of the mount: "Richmond County Camera Co. / LEW. MORRIS, PROP., WEST N. BRIGHTON, S. I.". A handwritten inscription on the reverse of the mount notes that the photo was taken before July 1891, when the mastiff Jesse died. (Keywords: New York, NSFD, North Shore Fire Department) |
Print size |
6 x 8.5 |
Acquisition |
Gift of Ida Dudley Dale |
Earliest Date |
1887 |
Latest Date |
1891 |
Subjects |
Fire fighters Fire engines & equipment Group portraits Dogs |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Dale, Charles G., Jr. Seehusen, Ernest |
Catalog Number |
54.020.0003 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, July 2020. |
Legal Status |
Items represented here are from the collections of the Staten Island Historical Society. Materials reproduced for personal non-commercial use must credit the Staten Island Historical Society. Commercial licensing is available. |