Frank Seymour Firefighting Ephemera Collection
Seymour, Frank
The collection documents firefighting and fires in American history through newspaper and magazine illustrations, ephemera, and photographs. The emphasis is on large urban fires (New York City and Chicago) and industrial fires in the northeastern United States. There are some illustrations of cartoons, rescues, poems, fires on ships and clippings about great floods in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.
Jack Robrecht Collection of Firefighting Photographs
The collection contains primarily photographs and postcards relating to firefighting. Many of the photographs are of firefighting vehicles and apparatus, both horse-drawn and gasoline-powered. The cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore are especially well documented, though other cities are represented, including Hamilton, Ohio; Camden, New Jersey; Dallas, Texas; Baltimore, Maryland; Portland …
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Fires and Firefighting
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A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Fires and Firefighting forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
Project Fire Slides and Lantern Slides
This collection consists of thirty-one black and white three by four glass lantern slides and sixty film slides of Republic's work with Project Fire.
Walter Kidde & Company Aviation Photograph Collection
This collection consists of approximately 350 photographs, negatives, and illustrations, dating from the 1930s through the 1940s, from the Walter Kidde & Company archive. Subjects include Kidde fire suppression and air flotation systems, and military, commercial, and general aviation aircraft of the period. The collection also includes thirty-three photographs and transparencies made by aviation …
Roy Lichtenstein sketches for "As I Opened Fire"
Preliminary sketch for the painting "As I Opened Fire" [1964] and the comic strip on which it was based.
MS 1124 "The Beginning of the Requickening Address," Spoken at the Fire, or Three Rare Words
Abram, Charles, Chief
(Charge to the Chiefs from the Mother Side).?? (Waters of Pity)- 8 pages. (6 pages added December 1937).
MS 539 The Fire-keeper's address opening the council
Gibson, John Arthur, 1849-1912
Abram, Charles, Chief
Onondaga text.
MS 1691 Trumbull's Lord's Prayer (Peoria, Number 36) and Lennipinjakani [or The Meteor or "Fire Dragon"]
Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924
Trumbull, J. Hammond (James Hammond), 1821-1897
Also Story of the Meteor or Fire Dragon, by Gatschet, translated into Miami by J.P. Dunn.
