F.S. Chanfrau in the Character of "Mose" by Eliphalet Brown Jr. and James Brown: Museum Object and Cultural History
F.S. Chanfrau in the Character of "Mose" by Eliphalet Brown Jr. and James Brown: Date made: 1848. depicted: Chanfrau, Frank S.. maker: Brown, Eliphalet Jr..
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Color print of a actor (Frank S. Chanfrau) in the role of a fireman. He is standing with his jacket over one arm and a cigar in the other hand. His back is to other firemen who are attempting to put our a fire by pumping water from a fire engine and scaling walls.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: 1848
- depicted: Chanfrau, Frank S.
- maker: Brown, Eliphalet Jr.
- maker: Brown, James
- Object Name: lithograph
- Object Type: Lithograph
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: image: 12 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in; 31.75 cm x 24.13 cm
- place made: United States: New York, New York City
- Subject: Uniforms, fraternal
- Subject: Fire Fighting
- Subject: Chronology: 1840-1849
- Subject: Wagons
- Subject: Smoking
- Subject: Fires
- Subject: Theater
- ID Number: DL.60.3303
- catalog number: 60.3303
- Credit Line: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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