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History Of Civic Services In The City Of New York Fire Department No. 3 : A Steam Engine Was Used For The First Time.

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TITLE:  History of civic services in the city of New York Fire Department No. 3 : A steam engine was used for the first time. CALL NUMBER:  POS - WPA - NY .B635, no. 8 (C size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC2-835 (color film copy slide) RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY:  Poster for Federal Art Project series on the history of civic services, showing a horse-drawn steam fire engine racing to the scene of a building fire in 1841. MEDIUM:  1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color. CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [New York : Mayor's Poster Project Emergency Relief Bureau, 1936] CREATOR: Bock, Vera, artist. RELATED NAMES: Federal Art Project, sponsor. NOTES: Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 179 SUBJECTS: New York (N.Y.).--Fire Dept.--1840-1850. History--New York (State)--New York--1840-1850. Fire fighters--New York (State)--New York--1840-1850. Fire engines & equipment--New York (State)--New York--1840-1850. Steam engines--1840-1850. Municipal services--New York (State)--New York--1840-1850. New York (N.Y.)--1840-1850. FORMAT: Posters 1930-1940.Screen prints Color 1930-1940. REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:  (color film copy slide) cph 3b48735 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b48735 VIDEO FRAME ID:  LCPP003B-48735 (from color film copy slide) CONTROL #:  98518670